RE: Facebook building 800 million data center in DeKalb
Outta touch with reality.
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Yes, your ivory tower reality.
Work for and talk to white, black and hispanic contractors and subs. Talk to anyone who's lived in a city that built a huge industrial complex, or even large residential/business/retail projects. Do you really think all of these projects in DeKalb are going to be built with local labor? And do you think all of the workers and their spouses and children are going to pack up and move after the initial projects are finished? There's nothing political/racial about this. It's how construction works in many places in the U.S.
Where do you see your reality-based labor force coming from?
This is just one example...
Latino Worker Migration to Post-Katrina New Orleans
Latino worker migration to post-Katrina New Orleans transformed the
demographic profile of the metropolitan area’s Hispanic community.
As thousands of migrant workers – estimated between 30,000 and 100,000 – arrived in the wake of the storm, Latino demographics, such as population size, country of origin, age, gender, and occupation, noticeably shifted.
Over the next year, a new and robust community of mostly male, working-class migrant workers from throughout Latin America augmented a modestly sized and predominantly middle-class Hispanic population.
Although nearly half of the construction workers in April 2006 were thought to be Latino, of whom 54 percent were estimated to be undocumented, New Orleans’ post-Katrina migrant workforce also included African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and whites.
Latinos migrated to the region from within the United States as well as abroad, as documented and undocumented laborers. Some workers came on their own, while others were recruited directly by employers.
In the aftermath of the storm, rebuilding contractors recruited Latino workers
within and outside the U. S. to fill the labor shortage, promising workers high wages of up to $17 per hour in addition to free food, lodging, and transportation.62 Migrants were 13 recruited as individuals and in small groups while others were hired in swaths of thousands to undertake large-scale contracts, such as FEMA trailer installation.
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Nothing in that article (cite?) is contrary to my comment.
New Orleans post Katrina, by the way, is a whole lot different than this. This is ONE project. With ONE owner. The labor will come from where ever the contractor can/ do get heir labor from. If it is union labor, the pay rates (as was mentioned here) will be quite handsome. Post Katrina you had most of an entire city destroyed. Most of a city needing to be rebuilt. That labor had to come in from elsewhere, and did, is not a negative. You made it sound like a negative. If I misread your first post, I apologize. And as to the second, its best not to comment on anything on the internet without knowing its source, and you did not post the source on that blurb, so .... ?
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