They ain’t worth the resources they drain because people keep giving them huge incentives. In Virginia for example they don’t even pay sales tax, pocketing $1.6 billion a year.
They also don’t create jobs. At least not locally. Both the data centers my employer has are practically unmanned. They have half the NOC guys working from there just to have someone in the building in the rare chance something happens. There’s zero reason anyone should be giving out incentives to have one of these fucking things put in near them. If they’re going to allow it at all charge the absolute fuck out of the company building it so that the locals benefit.
They ain’t worth the resources they drain because people keep giving them huge incentives. In Virginia for example they don’t even pay sales tax, pocketing $1.6 billion a year.
They also don’t create jobs. At least not locally. Both the data centers my employer has are practically unmanned. They have half the NOC guys working from there just to have someone in the building in the rare chance something happens. There’s zero reason anyone should be giving out incentives to have one of these fucking things put in near them. If they’re going to allow it at all charge the absolute fuck out of the company building it so that the locals benefit.
If you can buy a local politician for 0-100k dollars and youre a business that makes that in seconds then you can do a lot of damage.