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A $10 billion data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, will employ about 300 people once it is operational.
Meta's facility, the company announced in February, will represent more than $10 billion in regional investment.
At peak construction, the project is expected to support more than 4,000 construction jobs.
Once operational, the campus will support about 300 jobs.
That works out to one permanent position for every $33 million invested.
Compare that to TSMC's semiconductor complex in Phoenix, Arizona: TSMC's total investment of $165 billion in the U.S.
is expected to directly create 12,000 jobs once all sites are completed and fully operational, according to the company's president, Rose Castanares, in an interview cited by TrendForce.
That is one job for every $14 million, still capital-heavy but more than twice the labor density of Meta's data center.
Virginia data centers generate just one permanent job for every $13 million invested, according to a January 2026 analysis by Food & Water Watch, based on Virginia Economic Development Partnership data dating back to 1990.
In contrast, it costs $137,000 to create one job outside of the data center sector, about 100 times less investment.
The disparity sits at the center ofan accelerating national debateover what communities should expect when a hyperscale facility lands in their county.
The most automated hyperscale campuses can run on skeleton crews.
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