The AI data center tsunami is coming. The jobs are not.
By Andy Medici
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Published: Jun 9, 2026

A recent AI data center project in Ohio received a $4.5 million tax break — and promised to create 10 permanent jobs.

A thousand miles away, Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. is pouring $10 billion into the construction of a one gigawatt data center across 1,000 acres in El Paso with the help of about $110 million in local tax breaks— with the promise of 300 jobs when it’s completed. That is up from the initial 100 full-time positions it promised to create during an initial announcement in 2025 — although it contractually only has to produce 50 full-time jobs.

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