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Is it worthwhile for NYC to pursue data centers? |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Mon Jun 30 12:14:37 2025 Meta has started construction on one of the world’s largest data centers on 2000-acre site in rural northern Louisiana. At an estimated cost of $10 billion it will consist of nine buildings with a total of 4 million square feet. Like any major development these days it is getting a whole array of government incentives, and as it will require a huge amount of electricity - at peak times, more than the entire city of New Orleans - the local utility has agreed to build three new power plants to serve it.Despite all this, the project has gotten some criticism because it won’t create as many jobs as one might imagine. While there will be about 5,000 construction jobs upon completion it will employ only about 500. That’s the nature of data centers. Even with these low job number I fully believe NYC should have made a bid for the center. The city’s image is at one of the lowest points in decades, between WFH, a perception (if not necessarily the reality) of rising crime, bumbling incompetence when it comes to any sort of major project (for example East River tunnel repairs of nearly 13-year-old damage), the hated congestion pricing, greedy public sector unions running wild, upstaging by dynamic Sunbelt cities … the list goes on and on. SOMETHING has to be done to give the city a desperately needed image/ego boost, and the Meta data center would have fit the bill. |
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