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Comment by estearum

4 hours ago

Considering we are in a gigantic housing shortage, it would be great if a house didn't have to compete for talent with a data center.

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Permit  2 hours ago

The housing shortage has nothing to do with a lack of electrical engineers or plumbers. It’s entirely self inflicted and cheaper electricians will not change that.

More directly: I doubt there will be a meaningful increase in housing in states that have banned construction of new data centers (NY, Maine) than those where data centers are allowed to be built.

  • estearum  16 minutes ago

    You don't work in construction do you?

    Lack of skilled tradesmen is a widespread problem and a major source of project delay (on top of massively higher housing production costs).

    I assume next comes the zoning-causes-all-shortages and if only we could fix zoning then we'd solve housing – a thesis for which there's zero evidence.

quickthrowman  1 hour ago

There is almost zero overlap between residential and commercial electricians. There is a shortage of residential electricians because the customers are a nightmare to deal with (both builders and homeowners, homeowners are incredibly entitled and I refuse to deal with them, lol) and the pay sucks.