Another great piece by @GavinSBaker
Data centers can be local economic engines.
• “Electricity prices are going down today in a number of large states because of data centers.”
• “Poverty in Quincy, WA fell from 29% to 6%. Data center taxes paid for a new high school, a hospital, a library, police and fire stations.”
• “Loudoun County… now collects on the order of $1 billion a year from data centers. In Quincy, WA, data centers are more than half the property-tax roll.”
Regret the tone of my post on data centers yesterday. What I should have said: There were reasonable concerns about data centers 18ish months ago: water, taxes,...