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False. They bring in huge amounts of taxes.

> Over the past 20 years, the data center industry in Loudoun County has grown significantly. As a result, the amount of revenue that the county receives from personal property tax revenue on the computer equipment located inside data centers has also grown significantly. Currently, data centers occupy approximately 4 percent of commercial parcels of the land in the county; however, they yield 38% of general fund revenue collected by the county

38% of fund revenue for this county comes from data centres.

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