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$7 TRILLION for "Temporary Jobs" There are certainly legitimate (though exaggerated) concerns in communities on the impact of new #datacenters, but one of the hollowest is this one: "they only create temporary #construction #jobs." A friend of ours who works in the building industry had the perfect response: "EVERY construction project creates 'temporary jobs’." (Eventually the construction is COMPLETED!) Let’s do the math on how many of these “temporary jobs” there will be. McKinsey recently estimated $7 trillion of construction costs for new data centers in the years to come. Roughly HALF OF THE COST of a construction project is labor costs. So that’s $3.5 TRILLION that will be paid to mostly #union workers. The average pay and benefit for a union construction worker is a little under $100,000. So this means tech companies will pay out the equivalent of a one-year payment of $100,000 to 35 MILLION #workers. Or, more realistically, **$100,000 per year to one MILLION full-time workers for 35 years** That’s a lot of good paying jobs. **No wonder the construction unions love data centers** Quick: someone tell Bernie @ SenSanders. https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/hotlines/7-trillion-for-temporary-jobs/