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They should be popular - they pay property taxes to the local schools without taking much from the community at all. (note that I'm coming out against the all
by bluGill 1mo ago
They should be popular - they pay property taxes to the local schools without taking much from the community at all. (note that I'm coming out against the all too common tax breaks that they get to build in your city)
- wood_spirit 1mo agoThey should be underground (that’s not shockingly expensive at the scale we talk about) and a net green-energy-driven power producer which they give away for free and pay property taxes. The list of things they could do that would be a cheap 1-2% of the total build and running costs to soften it are long.
- ipdashc 1mo ago> They should be underground (that’s not shockingly expensive at the scale we talk about) ... I'm not sure you realize the size of a modern hyperscale datacenter? They're pretty dang big. The amount of earthmoving to bury one would also be awful for the environment. There's really no need to complicate it that much, they're big warehouses full of computers, just shove them on some unused industrial land somewhere as is already being done. They should be required to pay for new renewable generation, I agree. That much is common sense.
- wood_spirit 1mo agoYes i didn’t mean deep. Berms and roof gardens can completely hide them.
- ipdashc 1mo agoSure, that's much more feasible, but there's no real point. We don't do this for any other kind of industrial infrastructure (except the kind that HAS to go in residential areas, like utility substations). It's like the ultimate first world problem, spending money and gas on earthmoving so that the few dozen people who might occasionally drive past this thing can glance at a grassy berm instead of a concrete wall.