The county's Commissioners Court will hold the public hearing at 9:00 a.m. on June 3 at the Grimes County Justice & Business Center in Anderson, Texas, where it will consider the abatement agreement. Residents have expressed frustration over the lack of communication from county officials about the project, according to KBTX . Neither SpaceX nor Musk has publicly commented on the filing.
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bill001g Unlike AI data centers they need skill labor at this location. I wonder how much trouble they will have getting people who are willing to either live out in the middle of nowhere or drive long distances to work on small rural highways. The closest somewhat larger city is college stations and that it not really a big city and is over 20 miles. Reply
FoxtrotMichael-1 warezme said: I don't think the OP was talking about Walmarts' He was more referring to skilled labor. There aren't that many high tech skilled workers in rural maga central. I wouldn't call the area between Austin and College Station "rural maga central." It's actually not even that conservative. As for skilled labor, Musk is known for importing labor and even building entire cities or neighborhoods to house them. It won't be an issue. The bigger issue is that Texas already has massive energy and water constraints and I'm not sure how this won't make all of those problems much worse. Reply
bill001g FoxtrotMichael-1 said: I wouldn't call the area between Austin and College Station "rural maga central." It's actually not even that conservative. As for skilled labor, Musk is known for importing labor and even building entire cities or neighborhoods to house them. It won't be an issue. The bigger issue is that Texas already has massive energy and water constraints and I'm not sure how this won't make all of those problems much worse. When I looked it up the area is EAST of college station by about 20 miles which puts it even farther from austin. It is almost closer to the very north suburbs of houston than austin. Both are close to 100 miles away. Look at google maps it is out in the middle of nowhere. You can see parts of the old power plan next to the lake. The problem they have is the people that they need to hire need to be much higher skill than your average factory worker. They already have all the issues of getting these people willing to work third shift. They can only pay so much and you will have a large number of people that are willing to take less money so they can live near friends and family. Now maybe they will find enough people that love living out in the country. Housing is a fraction of the cost of austin. It is mostly large farmland and ranches in that area. Reply
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