Most people think the cloud floats. Saurav Roychoudhury, a Capital University economist, ran the numbers on Ohio’s data centers and found concrete, copper, and a whole lot of jobs. We get into ripple effects, why community trust is the real bottleneck, and whether any of this is zero-sum.Chapters:Links:Saurav Roychoudhury — LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sauravrcCapital University — Economics: capital.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/economicsThe Economic Impact Study of Data Centers in Ohio — by SRC EvalMetrics LLC (the guest’s firm) for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce Research Foundation: ohiochamberfoundation.com — data center study PwC, “Economic, Environmental, and Social Impacts of Data Centers in the United States” — commissioned by the Data Center Coalition (referenced ~IMPLAN — the input-output economic modeling system used in the study (~Thank you for visiting our channel, be sure to Like, Comment, and Subscribe! For more information, go to https://www.QTSDataCenters.comLearn More about QTS Data Centers on the QTS YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/users/qtsdatacentersThink you have a great topic for a podcast or would like to schedule an interview with Dave? Send in your requests to [email protected]