This is going to mean really big things for West Virginia in a few different ways. Let's start with one of the first. Based upon January 2025 statistics from the Marshall center for Business and Research, that could be up to 1500 immediate jobs. obviously for the construction projects and a lot of the initial installation long term, they're projecting that this could result in another 7,000 jobs for many other industries. (01:34–01:45)
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