 have the new data center occupied by the beginning of 2011.
The Mohawk Valley chambers said Gov. Eliot Spitzer in 2007 had begun the backpedaling, saying that the Mohawk Valley wouldn’t get the data center but promising a similarly sized project for the area.
Then, in 2008, Gov. David Paterson said the data center commitment had been premature, and made no mention of an alternate project, the chambers said.
With Paterson currently seeking to cut state expenditures wherever possible, it’s not clear how likely he will be to make a further financial commitment to the Utica region.
Reneging on agreements elsewhere is bound to give a bad (or worse) name to government everywhere…
The Capital Region already has nanotech and AMD on the horizon, it only makes sense for another facility here rather than building in middle-of-nowhere Utica. That is if we are to create any sort of successful tech cluster in this state.
If you dig deep enough you will find the objections to the establishment of the data center, in Marcy, involve the NYS public employees union(s). A similar reaction involved the establishment of a data center in Binghamton, a number of years ago. NYS Employees just don’t want to move to where the job are…spoiled brats. To fix the finiancial problems in NYS, I’d start with privatizing just about everything PEF does. The mantra normally heard “public employees can do it cheaper” cannot stand the test of the light of day. Analysis by independant third parties show that it takes 1.8 state workes to do the job of 1 private sector employee. This is a “burdened” number taking into consideration, productivity, retirement, days off, sick time, vacation, and most importantly, the tendancy of NYS departments to over staff… relative to private industry…. resulting in less work for each employee. You say it isn’t so??? I have three family members who are state employess who say it is a fact.
Hey Chauncy:
What do Nano and AMD (guess you mean GLOBALFOUNDRIES) have to do with a data center? They are different clusters (even if you take a generous interpretation of that concept). That’s the idea with a data center, isn’t it? You can put it anywhere there’s cheap power, dood data transmission capability, and reasonably well eduacted people. And the political wherewithal to make it happen, of course.
If #3 is an economist of any sort, I can see why the word “former” is in the signature. It makes perfect sense for the State or anyone to site a facility where skilled workers are, rather than making a political decision to spread it around like so much pork.
answer to #5. The real political decision is not to locate the data center to the Utica where the NYS upper division college of technology resides. Highly skilled systems and programmer personnel can be located anywhere on the NYS fiber optic network, that is one of the reasons it was built. Agency IT development personnel would be, as they are now, located throughout the state. The data center need only be significantly staffed with lower level technical operations personnel. The number of highly skilled systems programmers needed would be minimal with many being provided by the equipment manufactures. Hardware support would be supplied by the hardware/software manufactures/suppliers and the amount of NYS supplied PC support folks would be easily supplied by the Utica area. A facility built/refurbished by a third party and leased back to the state would most assuredly cost significantly less than one built in Saratoga,or other parts of the Capital District.
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The kind of battle you must win to qualify may have changed: Where war used to be continuation of politics by other means we now often face politics as continuation of war. What says Spirit of Clausewitz?
Compare recent dismissal of US Navy captain. He tried to take care of the operational capability of an aircraft carrier and H&S of the sailors aboard. Unfortunately politicians read this as implying that all was not perfect in Trumps Own Country, a clear attack on Leader.
Clasewitz discussed the matter in the form of a dialectic. The continuation of policy with the inclusion of other means is probably a better way of getting across what Clausewitz meant. But he didn't mean it as a statement of fact, more as one end of a spectrum, with war being a one-on-one fight on a larger scale being the other end, and the reality existing somewhere inbetween, with elements of both.
Clausewitz discussed the matter in the form of a dialectic.
He was a contemporary of Hegel. Absolutes were being dissolved thoroughly at this time.
Just a comment on "Oxbridge", we need to know which version. For sure, it includes people from incredibly privileged backgrounds, like Rees-Mogg, Cameron and Johnson, for whom PPE (in the non-covid meaning) at Oxford was the step between private school and a job in the city/media/big business.
But most of the people I knew were bright kids from middle income families that were supportive of their kids' educations - not people that have had a tough start on the whole, but also not the elite old school tie cliques as found in the current government. I suspect the Oxbridge cohort within the Labour party are more likely drawn from this group too.
That probably describes my daughter and her friends. She was/is about the closest to a Northerner in her college - Not really sure of the tense as she's in her final year, but won't be going back except to graduate.
It’s definitely MrsBJN, a clever Northern lass what got into Oxbridge. I met her through a colleague/business partner who was at Cambridge with her. So I know a whole Cambridge cohort from my connection with them that fit that mould, and nary a posh entitled Tory git among them.
Just had a trawl through and there are four PPE-ers, none of whom are from the landed gentry (or especially privileged, as far as I can tell - it's the first time I've heard of some of them - ymmv).
Ed Miliband, Rachel Reeves, Nick Thomas-Symonds, Anneliese Dodds.
Quite a few state schoolers there. No posh public schools, at first glance.
Oooo, they don't like Streeting and Phillips, do they? Lot of froth and