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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by richwater on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:12PM (#50473464)
Tax revenue from otherwise undesirable land.

There's a reason lots of data centers are built around airports (already noisy) or in places that can't support other types of development for some reason.

Many local governments have failed in their responsibility to constituents in approving placement of DCs that should or could have better local projects like housing or retail.

Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by unrented7977 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:18PM (#50473578)
Datacenters are getting sweetheart tax deals, and likely will pay way less in taxes than the people do because in the great US of A corporations can simply not pay taxes.

Do you have another argument that doesn't rely on trickle-down economics?

Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by verdverm on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:43PM (#50473975)
Trickle down economics is starting to get schooled in trickle up governance
Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by richwater on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:46PM (#50474029)
Yes, the whole point of giving them a reduction in future taxes is to encourage development in otherwise undesirable land.

You would never build residential development at the threshold of an airport for obvious reasons. So the remaining options are either leave the land undeveloped and get nothing, or build something that doesn't need quiet to generate tax revenue.

I'm not advocating for or against specific tax agreements because that is between the company and local government, who represent the people.

Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by nontiko on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:38PM (#50474675)
I looked at the linked page of corporate tax rates. Scroll down to the next graph showing corporate tax revenues. US corporate tax revenues are insignificant compared the other countries in the graph.
Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by bethekidyouwant on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:30PM (#50476944)
What else can we say about these other countries..