[MaxHoppersGhost]

What is the increase in jobs/GDP for those communities that have paid more in electricity? A lot of these data centers are built in places with declining population and zero economic prospects for locals within their communities so they're a huge boon.

[bakies]

None? There's like 12 jobs per datacenter and the revenue goes to the Valley, mostly. The utilities get some profit but I doubt that money stays very local either.

[MaxHoppersGhost]

Places I know that are getting them are generally seeing big time pay (relatively that is) for construction work and then dozens to a hundred of ongoing jobs once the work is done. That doesn't sound like much but it's huge for many of these communities.

[derektank]

Data centers pay taxes don’t they? That money presumably goes into funding government services which would necessarily raise the local GDP

[bell-cot]

Only if the data center's task force of influencers, lobbyists, and arm-twisters are incompetent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_abatement

(Yes, in general, they'll pay some tax. Some. But they also add a wide variety of direct and indirect expenses, both fiscal and social.)