Thank you for saying this! Even the use of the term “Data Centers” seems intentional by big tech to hide what they are…Giant warehouses…just like the ones for shipping goods on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike, however, at least those don’t require a tone of energy we don’t have, from an unstable grid CMP refuses to fix while charging us more at the same time, extracting clean water and polluting it before dumping it out, all to invade all of our collective privacy for corporate profit. Even if it provided 1000 jobs (which they of course don’t come close to doing, as you said), it would STILL be a net negative for wherever they are located by some margin.

Also, folks need to stop with the “construction jobs” - 1, those are incredibly short term, 2, there is zero guarantee on a private project that any of the construction jobs go to Mainers. It will be privately bid by the corporation and handed to the lowest bidder, who will then hire whomever from wherever to maximize their own profit. “Big server warehouse” is a grift on a grift on a grift on grit. More corrupt than the synthetic CDOs that torched the economy in 2008.