A small number of jobs for tradesmen (electricians, plumbers, etc.).
A small number of jobs for security guards.
Maybe a tiny number (one to three?) for individuals tasked with actual hardware swapping within the data center itself.
And all of the above assumes the data center owner does not "travel in" the requisite individuals on an "as needed" basis -- in which case the only jobs that may go to the locals is "security guard".
But all of the "sys-admin" management level work can be done remotely.
So the actual number of new jobs that arrive in the locality is likely on the order of 20-30 or fewer.
Yeah and that type of work bid usually goes to huge conglomerates. A local mom and pop electrician shop isn’t going to be building a datacenter, it’ll be something like Siemens.
A friend of mine is an independent electrician in the Columbus, OH area. Last summer he told me he was getting plenty of datacenter construction work, albeit it was in the form of subcontracted jobs from the larger firms who were awarded the contracts.
Even if the datacenter does hire some local labor for construction, that's still all temporary jobs. It's not an ongoing source of employment for locals.
I would imagine there aren't too many electricians in Yeehaw, Minnesota, trained and qualified to do gigawatt data center installs. So they'll freight in contractors to do that work, and maybe temporarily employ a few locals for a month or two for auxiliary stuff.
More generally, this is the universal playbook when someone wants to dump some megaproject on a community that doesn't want it: This will create X jobs and inject $Y into the local economy. Can you name one case where this actually happened? It's usually very few additional permanent jobs and, particularly for public-works stuff, millions or even billions in extra debt to pay off. But don't worry, this next thing we're working on once we get the local council to issue a permit to bulldoze your forest park, that will bring in jobs, we promise.
I work for an electrical contractor that does large data center projects and we almost always partner with a local contractor to provide labor from the local union(s).
sure, that only covers construction though. Once the thing is built they are going to travel in all the maintenance that needs to happen, and that local tradesman is not going to get to many new home construction jobs after it goes in. Who wants to live nearby a noise polluter like that?
How many of these are on-going jobs vs during construction and as-needed? I think you're right it'll be only security guard jobs. Even if they don't travel in workers, it's quick short-term tasks that maybe locals can perform, but that's not "creating jobs."
This argument has always been such a weird goalpost shift for me. Even at my full time job I am getting strung together by 3-12 month projects. Everyone works on projects. When this data center is done in a year, we'll (hopefully) need to build something else, keeping those people employed.
Like, of course it's creating a job. If you create a million 1-year jobs every year, that's a million jobs.
Because the "it'll create X jobs" implies it's ongoing. It's a disingenuous attempt to oversell the benefits because they know if they're transparent about it, suddenly it doesn't seem like such a great deal.
Actually if they were honest they'd say "It'll create x careers", which is a much better deal than just a job. Friend went from 17 an hour at his first DC to 100/hr last year with 70 people on his team.
> A small number of jobs for tradesmen (electricians, plumbers, etc.).
Its no car dealership but probably a reliable source of work-orders. Seems like a "gigascale" datacenter would be a large job for a tradesman to be a subcontractor within and afterward its scale means continuous upgrades/maintenance.
Is there any literature of ongoing economic impact of similar facilities?
The journalist on the article missed the mark here:
"Manufacturers tend to be less supportive of right-to-repair efforts, as corporations stand to make more money charging for tools, replacement parts, and repair services than if they were to just let people fix things on their own."
This is not the reason manufacturers oppose right-to-repair. They oppose right to repair because a device that is repaired is one less sale of a new device, and they do not want anything interfering with that "new device sales treadmill".
I think it’s both but depends on the device. For a tractor or car the author’s case is mostly correct. For a smart watch it’s more likely what you describe.
Sadly, for those of us with somewhat less than perfect color vision (typical male some percentage red-green deficiency) the colorful version is not more useful (actually, it is way less useful, because some of the color choices made are bordering on invisible).
If I'm looking for a C0, I just search for C0, and less highlights all the C0 bytes, in inverse video (which is trivially easy to spot).
All the way at the bottom of the page is this text:
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While the idea of requiring fully transparent bags at TSA might actually speed up the security process, you can breathe a sigh of relief. This is just a joke as part of our annual April Fools’ Day tradition here at Upgraded Points, and we are hugely appreciative of everything that TSA officers do to keep air travel safe.
> 2) How did you even discover servers in the first place when you first started out?
Magazines and/or word of mouth.
> 3) Were there big popular servers that everyone used or was it fragmented?
Some of both, but way more fragmented than centralized (running a "big server" was also a "big expense" on the part of the Sysop, so most were small hobbyist endeavors that supported one to some small number (usually single digits) of concurrent users).
> 4) What was the general vibe of discussions like back then? How was it different than now?
As most were small (one or two phone lines to the BBS) and because toll (long distance phone) calls were charged by the minute, most were small isolated islands within a local calling area (which 'local' calls were usually unmetered [not charged a per minute charge]). So one usually ended up discussing with the same group of other users of that bbs rather than never encountering the same user again as is the case today. I.e. it was more a "remote access social club" for geographically "near" individuals.
At the same time, no one had the ability to broadcast to the world (in the same manner as FB, Twitter, Youtube, Tiktok, etc.) so there was (sometimes) less "politics" and/or if there was "politics" being discussed it was often local instead of national.
> They seem to be actually implementing a lot of high effort scam protection features recently in android
This all happened recently because a court case was recently decided that broke Google's monopoly on play store money flows (Google must now allow alternate play stores). These recent changes are simply to try to prop up as much of their play store profit center as they can by restricting what you can do with the computer you purchased.
> Not even a small fraction of a percentage of scams come from installing software normally, but only from Google Play store.
This change is not about stopping malware/scams. Malware/scams is just the gaslighting excuse for the change.
The actual reason for the change is to try to protect playstore profits. With the lawsuit that forced them to allow alternate "stores" they saw the money stream shrinking, and this is their attempt at propping up the money flow for as long as possible.
It was, but xdamage is part of the composting side of the final bitmap image generation, before that final bitmap is clocked out to the display.
The frame buffer, at least the portion of the GPU responsible for reading the frame buffer and shipping the contents out over the port to the display, the communications cable to the display screen itself, and the display screen were still reading, transmitting, and refreshing every pixel of the display at 60hz (or more).
This LG display tech. claims to be able to turn that last portion's speed down to a 1Hz rate from whatever it usually is running at.
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