When the new jobs number increases to four (or even three) digits people will take that more seriously.

I'm concerned with the ones that create temporary jobs, few permanent ones, drive up water and electrical rates and then help deskill other industries.

If we could magically guarantee that our [starry-eyed|gullible|treacherous] political leaders didn't give back most of those property taxes before the DC even broke ground...

How many jobs are created? And how many jobs were also lost because of AI? A few jobs created vs thousands or more lost isn't a positive.

> that brings in net new jobs

Ah yes, those invaluable tens of jobs created by DCs....

The economy is not a jobs program. Stop thinking about it that way. Think in terms of taxes generated instead.

But it was not my argument, was ot?

It wasn't mine. You sort of created it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978872 .

Really, wasn't yours? I mean you literally used "net jobs created" as an argument ?

That part was not discussing data center jobs; it was asking cdrnsf if they'd object to other industries bringing in jobs that just happened to be above median wage (which would increase the COL for existing residents).

Well then, why would you ask them that in this context? Just out of interest and out of the topic context?