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> The "jobs" justification for these is a joke: datacenters create a couple dozen mediocre jobs in the area, and hundreds of well-paid ones way off in Silicon Valley. California reaps the rewards of you wrecking your own revenue base.

Silicon Valley != California

Wall Street and its associated global oligarchy reap the rewards, not the average Californian, who pays the costs via higher climate change risks, insurance costs, and energy costs.



Its the thin strip of real estate owners along the San Francisco to San Jose corridor who reap all the rewards


> Its the thin strip of real estate owners along the San Francisco to San Jose corridor who reap all the rewards

They reap a lot, but hardly all the rewards.

Per capita the majority goes to VCs and the C-suite, and their wall street comrades.




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