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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
msbellows@c.im ("M.S. Bellows, Jr.") wrote:
@TheComfortableSpotPodcast (Edit) Oregon just did a study: we have 111 data centers, using 23% of the state's total electricity and an unknown but ungodly amount of water, employing a whopping (drumroll please):
2,630 workers.
By comparison, Oregon's cannabis industry employs 9,200.
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/09/17/oregon-data-centers-consume-quarter-state-power-report/