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by Worf 43 days ago
> All they'll have is higher property taxes, water, and electricity bills.

How would the datacenter lead to higher taxes and bills? Genuinely curious.

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For the utilities at least, data centers take a crazy amount of electricity and water to operate. These costs are subsidized through some sort of arrangement - that I've never really understood - with the respective companies and spread out among the residents. Maybe there's something similar re property with the area becoming more "valuable", leading to something akin to gentrification.