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I don't understand this terribly well, but shouldn't then market forces, the decreased price of power and water in places due to decreased demand cause it to be
by Arelius 13y ago
I don't understand this terribly well, but shouldn't then market forces, the decreased price of power and water in places due to decreased demand cause it to be an attractive place to build a data center regardless? Why then do we need to be subsidizing it?
- sharkweek 13y agoWe don't -- but when we don't, another county will
- aray 13y agoThis is it, dead on. The problem is not incentivizing just your old textile/paper-processing county, it's competing with all of the other ones. So at the end of the day hopefully everyone's done their homework and the community is still making more money than it was before.
- _mulder_ 13y agoQuite right, and lot's of places don't. You can ask them how many Datacenters they have. Seriosuly though, you're right, if nobody offered subsidies, they would all be on a level playing field and market forces would win out. However, it only takes one to break rank and the free market is gone.