{"id":276539,"date":"2025-07-20T04:58:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T04:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276539\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T04:58:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T04:58:22","slug":"data-centers-growing-fast-and-reshaping-local-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276539\/","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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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":276540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[104372,51,12633,104371,104373,3374,897,104374,20362,1002,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-276539","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-employment","14":"tag-jobs","15":"tag-quarterly-workforce-indicators-qwi","16":"tag-race","17":"tag-sex","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114883795654324440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}