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None? There's like 12 jobs per datacenter and the revenue goes to the Valley, mostly. The utilities get some profit but I doubt that money stays very local eith
by bakies 3mo ago
None? There's like 12 jobs per datacenter and the revenue goes to the Valley, mostly. The utilities get some profit but I doubt that money stays very local either.
- derektank 3mo agoData centers pay taxes don’t they? That money presumably goes into funding government services which would necessarily raise the local GDP
- bell-cot 3mo agoOnly if the data center's task force of influencers, lobbyists, and arm-twisters are incompetent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_abatement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_abatement (Yes, in general, they'll pay some tax. Some. But they also add a wide variety of direct and indirect expenses, both fiscal and social.)
- MaxHoppersGhost 3mo agoPlaces I know that are getting them are generally seeing big time pay (relatively that is) for construction work and then dozens to a hundred of ongoing jobs once the work is done. That doesn't sound like much but it's huge for many of these communities.