A new facility built on Facebook with 120 billion yen is a data center that can operate with 100 staff

ByBob Mical

It was announced to invest a billion dollars (about 120 billion yen) and to build a huge data center in the state of Virginia, USA. This is one thing that makes a huge investment for the region, but the employment generated there is only about 100 people. In the future there is a possibility that such a case will continue further.

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Facebook is spending $ 1 billion for a building that basically no one will work in
http://mashable.com/2017/10/05/facebook-data-centers-no-jobs/

In June 2017 the number of MAU (monthly active users) in the whole world reachedReached 2 billion peopleA huge amount of data flows into Facebook every day. It is indispensable to have a data center for storing and providing the data, as well as for tracking user activity to analyze useful data for corporate advertisements. The data center that Facebook announced new construction will be huge with an area of ​​9 hectares equivalent to about two Tokyo Dome. The $ 750 million (about 85 billion yen) is invested in the data center itself, including the cost of solar power generation facilities that generate the necessary electricity to operate the data center, totaling 1 billion dollars (about 120 billion Yen) will be invested.

The scale of investment attracts attention, but attention is gathered even where the number of employment generated there is only about 100 people. The important point for the regional economy is the size of the budget to be introduced to the region by investment and the scale of newly created employment. In order to attract more investment and generate employment, local governments use tax reduction measures and other systems to appeal to companies, but how much employment of about 100 people generated by Virginia is beneficial to Virginia Whether or not it becomes a point to watch over the future trend.

ByChristopher Bowns

In fact, Virginia has taken substantial tax reduction measures. Taxes on data center equipment that stores digital data are usually $ 3.5 for an asset value of $ 100 (400 yen against about 12,000 yen), that is, asset value 3.5 %, But the state of Virginia lowered this tax rate to 40 cents (about 50 yen) per 100 dollars, 0.4% to the tax rate.

Virginia State Secretary Todd Heymour commented in a press release that "Facebook's decision to build a data center will be an economic victory for the state." "The data center related business in Virginia continues to expand, with respect to measures related to the data center so far, investment amount in the past 10 years amounted to 12 billion dollars (about 1.3 trillion yen), 650 We have been hiring employees of 13,500 people in data center facilities and facilities. "