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If they're counting jobs at Apple HQ, there are FAR more than 50 jobs associated with this data center.

They're talking about the people who report to work in the actual data center building. And that's an incredibly stupid way to measure the job creation of a cloud data center, given that its entire purpose in life is to allow remote access of its information.

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To the small town which is giving tax breaks, it's a somewhat important thing to discuss.

True, but there are knock-on effects of creating 50 new jobs in a town of 3400. These 50 people now have money to spend locally which could result in the creation of many more low wage jobs to service the new business.

Yeah, but then, the town is also now on the hook for police and fire service (and probably a variety of other non-obvious costs) for a huge datacenter, though the company is paying discounted taxes...

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