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Re:Google Wants $15M in Tax Breaks to Build a Data Center in... by admax88q on Monday March 04, 2019 @07:26PM (#19307076)
Data centre placement is driven by a heck of a lot more than tax incentives.

If they're looking to build a data centre in one place its because it fits their huge list of criteria. Tax breaks are just icing on the cake. They want a data centre here regardless.

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Re:Google Wants $15M in Tax Breaks to Build a Data Center in... by WkndTriathlete on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @08:47AM (#19310438)
I'm really curious what you think the other criteria are, because I can tell you that Becker, MN, is around 90 minutes from the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area and solidly in the middle of farm country.

I can only surmise that their list of criteria was limited to "minimize dollars per square foot in rent per month" and "vaguely somewhat near a metro area."

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Re:Google Wants $15M in Tax Breaks to Build a Data Center in... by admax88q on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @01:27PM (#19312831)
Power is the biggest expense of a data center. So either access to cheap power, or access to cheap cooling to offset power are probably the top criteria.

I'm sure there's others, latency to customers and real estate cost like you mentioned. Connectivity, construction costs, political stability.

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