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NY legislators passed a one-year data center moratorium.
Now, it's on Gov. Hochul's desk.
www.theverge.com/policy/94404...
Good to see people are interested in this topic. It's easy to default to subsidies, even for a community's most prime real estate and precious assets. It doesn't have to be this way. If you're ever interested in having us on the podcast, holler.
When Meta, Amazon, Google, and other companies come into towns looking for a public handout, that money isn't free: it would have gone to public services, including schools.
Over the next two years, Texas is expected to lose over $3 billion to data center tax breaks.
www.ktsm.com/news/data-ce...
“Ultimately, it isn’t a good idea to allow a billionaire corporation to build and profit from a stadium without paying property taxes on it,” Good Jobs First's Kristan Wong Karinen told the @chicagotribune.com.
There are no exceptions.
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4 states now report losing $1 billion+ to data center tax breaks. Costs keep rising; 14 states still fail to disclose what these subsidies cost.
Residents deserve to know what it's costing them to subsidize Big Tech *before* another deal is approved.
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