[twoodfin]

Sure, there’s plenty of places where you could plausibly build a data center, so the leverage that localities have to insist on high tax rates is limited.

[inigyou]

Then it can't be that bad to move it to another state, right?

[twoodfin]

Nope. Northern Virginia communities, for example, have seen significant budgetary wins from data center buildout over the past decade.

[inigyou]

Those previously completed projects in NV are completely unlike the ones currently being proposed and protested

[twoodfin]

What does that have to do with the question of how they’re taxed?