Ethan Brooks
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294 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
Ethan Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Desperation.
The town needs something, anything, to stay afloat.
After the mill closed, Cody and his girlfriend had their first kid, a daughter.
Cody needed to work, needed to provide for his family.
He heard from a friend that if you could get in as a union electrician, there was work.
The pay was good.
He took an aptitude test, became an apprentice.
Before too long, he had a new career.
Cody, a few short years after the mill closed, made a new career as an electrician working in data centers.
The debate around data centers around the country often comes back to jobs.
Maine's governor cited jobs as a central reason for her veto of the moratorium.
Meta recently spent $6 million on an ad campaign linking data centers and jobs.
We're bringing jobs home.
Specifically, Meta's talking about full-time, long-term jobs.
I figured the promise of these full-time jobs was central in the town's support for its data center project, especially with the sudden loss of the mill.
When I asked Tom Saviello, the county commissioner, it seemed like his ambitions went well beyond jobs.
The developer has said he expects the data center will employ 125 to 150 people full-time.
He also said there'd be 800 to 1,000 temporary construction jobs to get the data center up and running.
But the evidence so far does not look good for those long-term jobs.
A data center of the size being proposed in J might only employ 30 to 50 full-time staff.
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