{"id":18533,"date":"2025-07-18T09:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18533\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:03:31","slug":"data-centers-growing-fast-and-reshaping-local-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18533\/","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":18534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[17139,28,4868,17138,17140,4084,134,17141,10119,14110],"class_list":["post-18533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-america-counts-story","tag-business","tag-business-and-economy","tag-center-for-economic-studies-ces","tag-data-services","tag-employment","tag-jobs","tag-quarterly-workforce-indicators-qwi","tag-race","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}