The MS data center in Iowa is not excatly being built in some small remote town, yes Des Moines is small compared to NYC, Dallas etc, but still ok. And lots of plan B companies available. Granted, most companies that rely heavily on IT here are finance companies, but luckily none of them has been hit hard (so far).

I do agree witht he poster above though, that a call center would be far preferential to a data center as far as jobs go. The numbers I have seen for MS is about 80 people employeed in Des Moines.