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There is, of course, much more indirect employment involved:

This has been suggested many times before, but it is not true. There has already been a tweaker who closely followed the construction of the DC in Middenmeer. Here comes your employment:

construction companies,

External.

installers

External.

transport companies

International names only (FedEx, UPS) because framework contract.

software companies

These types of DCs fall under one company, they do not host external applications, so: external.

IT hardware companies

Nope, just HP, Dell, etc.

It might also attract other companies like energy optimization companies or something,

Not really, not lucrative. Purchasing green energy and emission certificates are cheaper.

companies that specialize in data center cooling

Neither, those are just established brands. A Facebook or Microsoft is not going to research local hardware or peripherals per country, much too much hassle and expensive for nothing.
And so on.

It is not always about the direct number of jobs.

Also indirectly, almost nothing is added. Better yet: how many jobs and companies would otherwise fit on that plot of land?

At Philips in Hoogeveen almost exclusively robots work, but it ensures that production and R&D can also be located here.

Totally not comparable. I don’t know what you think they do in a DC? There is a small local team to resolve any tickets (read: replace failing hardware) and the rest is done remotely outside the Netherlands.

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