That's 7,000 square feet per employee. And the promotion of "over 100 operational jobs" in Meta's press release is likely inflated.
Data centers have been touted by politicians and business leaders as a new avenue for employment. When President Trump discussed OpenAI’s Stargate AI venture during a recent press conference, he said that more than 100,000 new jobs would be created “almost immediately.” OpenAI echoed that in a blog post, saying Stargate would “create hundreds of thousands of American jobs.”
However, Dotan cited a one million square foot facility in Abilene, TX that OpenAI is planning to use for its Stargate AI venture that will employ 1,500 people to build it but is projected to employ only 100 people full time. “That’s one-fifth the number of people who will be working in a nearby cheese packing plant that is a fraction of the size,’’ Dotan wrote.
“Data centers are very labor-intensive to build, but not as labor-intensive to operate,” according to Jim Grice, a real estate and project finance attorney who focuses on data centers, as quoted in the WSJ article. [emphasis added]
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