[type0]

This is from 2014 on swedish radio news (google translated):

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A...

Governmental million to Facebook's new data center in Lulea

Scroll down to read it, basically taxpayers money went to Zuckerbergs pocket.

[blackoil]

And zuckerberg's money went to tax payers in terms of taxes and salary and tax on salary and spending from salary, so a profitable deal overall.

[type0]

> so a profitable deal overall.

I don't think that facebook is good for openness of the web and/or society as a whole, the amount of power without oversight that this Zuck has is simply scary.

Edit: here's some food for thought- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook

[rbanffy]

Weren't you talking about investing public money?

[type0]

Also, I'm all for it when paypayers money go to new struggling but promising startups, fb is not one of them. I can't really see why they would need governmental financial help other that to support corrupt politicians.

[rbanffy]

Is the question about what returns on the investment or about who the government invests in?

[type0]

They got subsidies, which is which is far from beeing an investment. And FB isn't very eager to pay taxes either.

[ComteDeLaFere]

Not really. The third slide is titled "A Ghost Data Center" because so few people are needed to run it.

[crpatino]

With that kind of logic, you could build a perpetual motion machine in no time.