[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.)