[ceejayoz]

> But it's not less in local coffers.

The local government is giving a local tax break, which comes out of their local tax revenue.

> If the incentive was not given, the datacenter would not be built there.

Objection, your honor, assuming facts not in evidence!

(Nor are the incentives any sort of guarantee. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/foxconn-mostly-abandons-10-b...)

> Residents aren't paying more for anything and no services are being cut.

They are receiving less tax revenue than they would have otherwise had to use on their services.

[newfriend]

You are assuming the datacenter would be built there without the incentive. That is highly unlikely.

[ceejayoz]

Yes, I'm assuming Facebook still needs the datacenter, and that the company that wasted $80B on the Metaverse can pay some taxes.

[newfriend]

There are 50 states in the US and plenty of other locations to build datacenters. "Still needing the datacenter" isn't a reason to build it in this specific location. It's ok to just admit you were wrong.

[ceejayoz]

> There are 50 states in the US and plenty of other locations to build datacenters.

Yes, and we should ban them from issuing these sorts of race-to-the-bottom sweetheart deal at taxpayer expense to trillion dollar corporations to address that.

[triceratops]

I hear unionization is great for collective bargaining. Maybe the states should form a union...