Well I guess the question is whether those protestors were representative of the community as a whole. 3 million dollars in tax revenue per year is a pretty good upside.

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SoMomentary an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Anecdata to be sure, but I can tell you that no one I've talked to was pro data center. I'm sure those people must exist somewhere but somehow I've never run into them in real life.

	▲	Dylan16807 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		For datacenters being built at all I want them to invest enough in power production to avoid contributing to price spikes. And for them being near me I want strict noise controls. But if both of those are met, I'll be pro-datacenter if it can offset checks the size of Hermantown $800 per household per year in taxes.

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Klonoar 6 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Only $3 million? They’re dealing with one of the richest companies on earth and said company is currently trying hard to find where to shove these things.

I frankly have to think $3m is low.

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DangitBobby an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Doesn't really seem like the city was interested in finding an answer to that question.

	▲	Dylan16807 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They refused to reschedule to a larger venue (and more hours?) but since they can count how many people showed up and watched and emailed my guess is that wouldn't have given them a much more accurate picture. In some ways I feel like they should have done it anyway, in other ways I don't know if it would have made any difference. It's certainly a lot less illuminating than a community vote... When the article says "most" people spoke against the proposal, that's an unfortunate gap in the reporting. Was it 60% or was it 95% or where in between?