{"id":13359,"date":"2025-08-21T07:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13359\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T07:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:21:16","slug":"data-centers-growing-fast-and-reshaping-local-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13359\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Centers Growing Fast and Reshaping Local Economies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employment was uneven within states, too. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov\/?s=133548&amp;st=CA&amp;v=map&amp;fc=true&amp;t=dc1&amp;x=0&amp;g=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In California<\/a>, for example, three counties (San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Clara) accounted for 60% of the state\u2019s data center employment. <a href=\"https:\/\/qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov\/?s=1336a3&amp;st=TX&amp;v=map&amp;fc=true&amp;t=dc1&amp;x=0&amp;g=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In Texas<\/a>, nearly 75% was in four counties (Travis, Bexar, Collin and Dallas).<\/p>\n<p>We also compared states\u2019 share of data center employment with their overall employment growth between 2016 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Our findings: The percentage of data center employment doubled in Arkansas and Alabama and grew significantly in the District of Columbia and other states, including Maine, Connecticut and Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Employment was uneven within states, too. \u00a0 In California, for example, three counties (San Francisco, Los Angeles and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[12545,79,3426,12543,12546,18,233,19,17,227,12547,4079,12544],"class_list":{"0":"post-13359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-america-counts-story","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-business-and-economy","11":"tag-center-for-economic-studies-ces","12":"tag-data-services","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-employment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-jobs","18":"tag-quarterly-workforce-indicators-qwi","19":"tag-race","20":"tag-sex"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}