The job benefit is construction, so short-lived, the long term benefits is to the local tax base.
A successful data center pays a lot more in taxes than an abandoned off-line paper mill...
I've worked in many across North America and outside it for a decade or more and he is for the most part correct. Call Centers are good business, Data Centers are utility hogs that run dark.
And generate tax revenue - that is the appeal. Not income taxes on worker salaries, but on the income generated by the data center itself - corporate income taxes and property taxes.
Local utilities expand to serve expanding residential developments, the home builder doesn't need to build their own power plant or water treatment plant...
The point I was making was that when a builder goes into an area to build say 200 homes, the builder doesn't have to install an infrastructure to supply electricity or water/sewage, the utility adds the capacity and the municipal water department increases capacity. When someone wants to build a data center the OP said they need to supply their own electricity or water if sufficient supply doesn't already exist.
Really? We don't have schools in the US? Or are you arguing that they are underfunded? Having worked in public school education, I think the money is there, but it is spent poorly, wasted on things that don't help students as much as it helps teachers and their healthcare/pension benefits. Question: Have you ever seen a teachers union go on strike for longer school days, longer school years, higher academic standards, or additional money for after school activities? Me neither - but then again, they are called "Teachers Unions", not "Student Advocates"...
Seems like if we can spend a billion dollars a day on bombs, we can buy kids breakfast and lunch at school. Off topic, sorry.
Are you really unaware of the federal school lunch program that feeds countless millions of low-income students a hot breakfast and lunch daily, along with take-home meals in some locals? Did you not see cars lined up outside public schools collecting their free meals during COVID? Are you unaware of SNAP, WIC, and other programs to help lower income family afford healthy food?
Wholesale does not mean below cost, it's a volume discount, esp if it is a consistent draw on the grid, not a wildly-dynamic load...
Your link - https://ryan.com/about-ryan/ne...
Is about tax deductions on datacenter equipment, not the profits generated on the revenue less operating costs, AKA 'profits' or 'income'.
This meeting isn't about climate change, it's about supply chain issues. If the strait or Hormuz wasn't blocked, they'd never have this conference.
They are reacting to availability and price, not climate concerns.
If 'most people' rode bikes to work the bike paths would be full at rush hour and your coveted bike rack by the front door would be relocated away from the front door.
It's cute to have a handful of bikes in a bike rack by the front door, 400 bikes by the front door is another thing entirely.
Your daily commutes to/from work are so pleasant because so few people do it...
It's a campaign statement dressed up as a Gov't press release. It's not supposed to be informative, it's designed to trigger low-information voters to vote for her.
It must be nice, Maine can just reject investments in the state - who knew they were that flush with employment opportunities?
Instead, she said she will create a council to study data centers' effects while also signing a separate measure to deny them certain state tax incentives.
I predict this 'council' will be researching this until after the Fall election, then quickly reach a conclusion...
Also, Gov, you don't need to deny tax benefits, just don't offer them!
Will that rule apply to commercial (non-datacenter) and residential projects? Must home development builders build their own sanitation and electricity generation facilities, or is it just data centers?
I didn't ask why Canada is being economically hostile to America, I tried to understand how a datacenter in Michigan would become a high-value military target - who would invade the US and go after such a "high value" target? I speculated Canada because of it's proximity, but I guess you could add Mexico to the list, i don't know.
Could it be threats of annexation and being called the 51st state? Oh he really didn't mean those things? Then why did he say them?
It's called humor? It's called "getting a rise out of your opponent" (when negotiating)...
As I recall, the angst between Canada and US recently started because Trump wanted to tariff steel & aluminum - Canadians thought it was an attack by their closest trading partner, when all it really was was a ham-fisted attempt to try and increase/build-up US domestic production of Aluminum and Steel. And when Canada started puffing up it's chest and pushing back against America, that just made it more humorous.
And finally, your
"No reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons" -- Ronald Reagan, 1967
I will point out two words in that quote - "today" and "1967" - it is not 1967 anymore, the world has changed just a bit in the last 59 years
So the issue is we lack proper refineries to process our own domestic crude oil - if only there was a way to fix that...
Invest in physics -- own a piece of Dirac!
