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at some point the additional tax revenue outweighs the downsides
by john_strinlai 5mo ago
at some point the additional tax revenue outweighs the downsides
- josefritzishere 5mo agoTax revenue doesn't outweigh clean water. Without clean water, we die.
- john_strinlai 5mo agothe water thing is exaggerated when it comes to data centers. but playing along with it: you just raise the % tax increase until it covers the cost of importing/cleaning the water or whatever other negative externality the data center causes. the concept is similar to "fuck you" pricing of construction contracts. you place a bid that is super high (i.e. the 200% tax), and you're happy either way. if you land the job (data center is built), you make insane profits (tax) to be used elsewhere (cleaning water, green initiatives, or whatever). if you don't land the job (data center not built), that is great too, you didn't really want it anyways. one thing is absolutely certain, though: humans will never build so many data centers that we run out of water. water scarcity will be from other causes.
- ndsipa_pomu 5mo agoI disagree as you can't eat or drink tax revenue.
- john_strinlai 5mo agoyou can eat food and drink water, though. use the tax revenue to directly support food and water via investing it in agriculture, food imports, water sanitation, etc.
- sagarm 5mo agoDatacenters don't meaningfully impact food production. This is just an aesthetic objection, nothing more.