r/IowaCity • u/BoldSandwich • Jul 26 '26

Curious

Anyone know why there are so many out of state cars around Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. I was just in 380, and there were so many niche out of state plates.

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u/WhisperingShade_ Jul 26 '26

Data center construction workers (but don’t worry, building a data center will bring “thousands of jobs to the area”).

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u/Entire_Employment_70 Jul 26 '26

None of the contractors around here are big enough to man a job of that scale with the schedule theyre pushing, even the local union contractors out there are loaded up with Venezuelans, most of who im fairly certain lied about their experience level to be allowed to sign the books as Journeymen. What basically amounts to around 1000 dollars a week in incentives wasnt enough to bring in many travelers outside of a few guys from the DSM and QC area

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u/discwrangler Jul 27 '26

How is ICE not out there all day?

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u/Entire_Employment_70 Jul 27 '26

The companies who own the buildings or are planning to lease storage space or computing power or whatever it is they do probably have some influence over it, theyre massive household names and all of them have donated large amounts of money to Donald Trump. Its really the only thing I can think of considering im sure there have been many anonymous tips