Portugal could lift GDP 1-2% by becoming the fastest place to build data centers
dscape · x · 2026-09-14
A Portuguese technologist argues the country could raise GDP by 1%-2% by leveraging its clean energy infrastructure to become the fastest place on earth to set up a data center start-to-finish in 12 months — cutting bureaucratic bloat, boosting blue-collar wages, and lifting average salaries. Cites Draghi's essay in the FT, while pessimistically predicting nothing will get done.
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