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>The fate of a nearly 1,260-acre parcel that includes a privately owned mausoleum is in question as Cheyenne City Council considers rezoning the area for future use as a business park, including a data center. Representatives of Viawest Group told members of the Cheyenne Public Services Committee last week that developers are contemplating a data center on the property. “There is plenty of land out there,” said company spokesman Tom Glissmeyer, adding that the company would “very thoughtfully and responsibly build it (the data center) out over the next handful of years.”

Archive: https://archive.today/cf7s6 From the post: >>The fate of a nearly 1,260-acre parcel that includes a privately owned mausoleum is in question as Cheyenne City Council considers rezoning the area for future use as a business park, including a data center. Representatives of Viawest Group told members of the Cheyenne Public Services Committee last week that developers are contemplating a data center on the property. “There is plenty of land out there,” said company spokesman Tom Glissmeyer, adding that the company would “very thoughtfully and responsibly build it (the data center) out over the next handful of years.”
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And anyone actually seen the payback equation on this? I mean any data center?

One article said “sales tax” on what hosting? How does the vendor even audit shared hosting that is load balanced in different states?

What is the actual method the use to derive sales tax?

Most builds like these have tax abatements for years.

Jobs? After built maybe 3-6 people employed. The guys that just sit there (security) and the guy that maybe pushes a broom.

So when your grandson is sitting in your lap in 60 years and asks you what you did during the great meme wars of 2026, the heated pie and bread battle, you can say, son, I shoveled bits in a datacenter in fuckallville.

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Many datacenters of this scale do actually have a lot of staff. Just not always "high paid". Most of them employ a full maintenance department that includes electricians, plumbers, etc (all on-call). Then there are the "Rack monkeys" that run cables, power, etc to racks. There are also the on-call "remote hands" guys running around (if this is a co-lo dc) to swap hardware/drives/etc at any time of the day or night. All of these facilities are also taxed on purchases they make in the state as well.

There are some "lights out" DC's and there is where a lot of things are going but for now many of them employ a lot more people than you think they do.

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Of all the ones I colocated in, large and small, mind you a few years ago, all those services were contracted in, not staff.

Maintence budgets are easier than salary budgets+payroll+taxes+withholdong+insurance+on and on.

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I suppose that makes sense for some of them. I had gear in a few (didn't work at the DC) but that one had everyone as direct hire on-site. It had some very, very specific requirements because of a bunch of government contracts so everyone had to be citizens, direct hire, no contracts, needed to pass background checks, etc.

Hell, I had to go through a background check just to be allowed into the facility to install the gear. They didn't even let you take your access badge with you. You had to call ahead to schedule time on-site. Get buzzed in. "Checked" (security checkpoint) then "check-out" your badge so you could go in and out of the DC if you needed to use a bathroom or something. Then you had to turn your badge back in and get "Checked" again on the way out to make sure you didn't take anything with you that was not on the pre-supplied list for the visit. It was very strict.