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.

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bdangubic 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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

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dlubarov an hour ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	bdangubic an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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