We studied 1,500-plus data centers over 23 years and found they created almost no new jobs in local stores or restaurants — it was somewhere else — News for Startups

We studied 1,500-plus data centers over 23 years and found they created almost no new jobs in local stores or restaurants — it was somewhere else

Data centers themselves directly create about a dozen jobs each, then about 1,000 in the local economy after a delay of several years.

Fortune · 2026-10-30T07:57:12.000Z