How Many Jobs Remain Once Construction Ends? #Shorts

What if the data center promising hundreds of jobs only needed about a hundred workers once construction was complete? According to a Senate investigation cited by TIME, some companies highlighted construction jobs when requesting incentives, but several did not specify how many permanent jobs would remain.

Some companies reported that their permanent workforce amounts to roughly one worker per megawatt of electricity demand. At a hundred-megawatt facility, that would mean about a hundred jobs after construction. This does not mean that construction creates no jobs: it means these are jobs at different stages.

The question for a community is simple: how many jobs leave with the construction crews, and how many remain when the center begins operating?

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