[scrabble]

I've seen cities near to me get burned by this. There was a water bottling plant that got a lot of subsidies and tax breaks from a nearby city believing that it would create a lot of jobs for locals.

Turns out you don't need very many people to run a water bottling facility of this nature and most of it is automated.

I've heard similar for data centers. Huge tax breaks believing they'll bring in a lot of jobs. People in town train hoping to be employed. Maybe 50-100 people actually required.

Places need to do a better job researching how much job creation is actually going to come out of this tax breaks and subsidies.

[icebraining]

Believing, right. I'd bet most of those decision makers has a strong belief that they'd get a good kickback.