How facebook DataCenter in Dekalb will impact the house market?

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Hello!

Facebook is building a new Data Center close to DeKalb Il in 2022, I believe that it will improve the appreciation of that are but my hypothesis is that it will improve even more the appreciation of Geneva, St Charles, and Batavia. The reason is that these towns have more restaurant offers better schools than DeKalb and they are even closer to Chicago downtown. The driving distance between the new facility and Geneva is about 20-25 min, not crazy? I would like to hear more comments about the impact of a Data Center facility. If people move to Dekalb the driving time can be as close as 5-15 min driving but the restaurants, schools, etc is way more limited than in the other suburbs and the distance to the city of Chicago is way more and with no train option while Elburn, St. Charles, Geneva, Batavia will have train options to the city, good schools, more entertainment offer.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-facebook-building-data-center-dekalb-20200630-ev6esvgobfcnpki4h3atjv4hky-story.html

Let me know your ideas.

Muhammad Rizwan · Answer

construction workers are generally live in temp housing or hotel.

Muhammad Rizwan · Answer

They are saying it will bring 100 job. Most probably it will be 20 in persons and 80 remote work.

Andres Felipe Alba Hernandez · Answer

Thanks, everybody for the comments!

Justin V. · Answer

@Muhammad Rizwan

Are they counting the jobs during the construction as well?

Lucas Gillmore · Answer

Yeah... data centers don’t have much in employment to your community 3-5 high salary jobs and then subbed out cleaning, enjoy!

Steve Morris · Answer

"Facebook is building a new Data Center"

I wouldn't let that hold too much weight.  If its a server farm, in OR, we have lots since power is cheap.  Then they usually get the local yokels to give them a big prop tax break.

Then they find out its about 10 jobs.

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