Comment by alphager
6 hours ago
That are paid (if not avoided) at the location of the owner, not the location of the dc.
Datacenters really aren't that good for the locals. Low property tax, just tens of jobs but very high infrastructure needs.
6 hours ago
That are paid (if not avoided) at the location of the owner, not the location of the dc.
Datacenters really aren't that good for the locals. Low property tax, just tens of jobs but very high infrastructure needs.
I live in Northern VA, the world capital of data centers and can co-sign this. they bring absolutely nothing other than our electric bills have literally doubled in the last 24 or so months
The DCs are in VA because its fed / spook central, which induces a large number of well paid policy / compliance / paperwork / tech jobs etc.
NoVa literally one of the richest regions on the planet and it's all sorta tied up in the same thing. Seems unfair to say DCs "bring nothing", the whole ecosystem is a manifestation of concentrated defense spend.
Instead of banning datacenters, why not just increase electricity rates for industrial customers?
If they build datacenters anyway, there should be plenty of extra funding for power infrastructure.
makes too much sense but of course they’ll move to Texas then and you’d again be labeled (like poor Maine here) as unfriendly to businesses and god knows what else