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Idk why it's hard to believe another company would try to outbid. Discovering good locations for data centers is genuinely a difficult problem. They're relativ

• topaz0 8mo ago
  In which case doing this in the dark is clearly bad for the community -- if that location is what's scarce then they should be demanding a better deal.
  • dguest 8mo ago
    The only way this makes sense for communities is as a kind of "finder's fee", i.e. you might argue that if BigTechOne™ knew that they'd have to bid against BigTechTwo™ they'd never even bother to scope out the location. Still, if the prospecting is the bottleneck there could be 3rd parties (or even the tech companies themselves) entering into agreements with towns which allow both a finders fee and open bidding for the lot.
  • PTOB 8mo ago
    ^ This right here.