Cloud Computing Brings Sprawling Centers, but Few Jobs, to Small Towns

One thing there isn’t much of at this Microsoft complex, one single computer data center, is long-term work. Microsoft says it might have "several dozen" employees in a place like this. They are mostly elite computer workers who tend not to come from Boydton, which lost a lot of good jobs when nearby factories closed and the prison shut down.

By QUENTIN HARDY

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