My city has bonds for all sorts of projects & it is financed by the people & federal grants. No corporations are involved in the process. It's not complicated: https://www.epa.gov/waterfinancecenter/effective-funding-fra...

You asked how data centres help you personally, I answered that it was taxes.

Your response is that - no you don't need the money, you can get it elsewhere.

This is a kind of senseless argument, I'll let you decide whether that's the case.