“Don’t (let anyone see you) be evil.”

First they cave in to the ChiComs on search engine censorship, and now they’re screwing over the folks in Caldwell County, North Carolina.

Google is a company with a cute name and a cuddly reputation;

30-percent profit margins and a market capitalization of $144 billion;

and a freshly inked, sweetheart deal to build a data center in the

Caldwell County city of Lenoir.

A data center is basically a climate-controlled

warehouse full of computers, with a seemingly limited capacity to

create excellent jobs or kick-start further business growth around it.

Ask for anything but Google. Hmm…I wonder about the deal Microsoft is getting for their new data center here in San Antonio. I also wonder if they hire me for one of those "… jobs in Northwest San Antonio with an average annual salary of up to $70,000." That’s a heck of a salary for a janitor. Of course, that’s the average. Fifteen executives making $275K, supervising 60 burros making $19K gives an average of about $70K, so maybe the janitor gig isn’t so hot. And do you think any local boy has a shot at one of those executive spots?  To their credit, Microsoft doesn’t make a big deal about the good-vs-evil thing.

Tip from the Instapundit.