Comment by ianaye

So a data center pays the same taxes as a homeowner, foot for foot? It seems unfair at first, but then it occurs to me that data centers would not be so desirable if they were not paying higher taxes. If land value tax helped to pop the data center bubble it would make the more off-putting aspects (organic farming is a less efficient use of land than factory farms) more palatable. Why not have a hybrid approach, where the local community can decide to apply different types of tax systems to different types of land and land uses?