$7 Trillion for “Temporary Jobs”

$7 Trillion for “Temporary Jobs”

There are certainly legitimate (though exaggerated) concerns in communities on the impact of new data centers, 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’.” Let’s do the math on how many of these “temporary jobs” there will be. McKinsey recently estimated $7 trillion of const…