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ceejayoz an hour ago

> But it's not less in local coffers.

The local government is giving a local tax break, which comes out of their tax revenue.

> If the incentive was not given, the datacenter would not be built there.

Objection, your honor, assuming facts not in evidence!

(Nor are the incentives any sort of guarantee. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/foxconn-mostly-abandons-10-b...)

> Residents aren't paying more for anything and no services are being cut.

They are receiving less tax revenue than they would have otherwise had to use on their services.

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newfriend 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

You are assuming the datacenter would be built there without the incentive. That is highly unlikely.

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ceejayoz 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yes, I'm assuming Facebook still needs the datacenter, and that the company that wasted $80B on the Metaverse can pay some taxes.

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newfriend 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

There are 50 states in the US and plenty of other locations to build datacenters. "Still needing the datacenter" isn't a reason to build it in this specific location. It's ok to just admit you were wrong.

	▲	ceejayoz 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> There are 50 states in the US and plenty of other locations to build datacenters. Yes, and we should ban them from issuing these sorts of race-to-the-bottom sweetheart deal at taxpayer expense to trillion dollar corporations to address that.