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Greater than $0 in cost of living increases for people living near these things is too much.

What a strange thing to say. This is peak NIMBYism and I urge you to reconsider. Loudoun country as an example generates ~1B USD annually [1] from taxes through data centres. That's equivalent to paying an annual salary of $40,000 to around 30k people. That's a LOT.

Do you really not consider taxes before repeating this tired argument?

[1] https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/View/219184/General-F...

Are you saying any industry that brings in net new jobs with above median wages is bad? Or just ones with few employees and high additional property tax revenue?

If we could magically guarantee that our [starry-eyed|gullible|treacherous] political leaders didn't give back most of those property taxes before the DC even broke ground...

When the new jobs number increases to four (or even three) digits people will take that more seriously.

Loudoun county generates ~1B USD from taxes annually from data centers. That's equivalent to 30k jobs paying 40k usd annually. Is that enough?

I'm concerned with the ones that create temporary jobs, few permanent ones, drive up water and electrical rates and then help deskill other industries.

> that brings in net new jobs

Ah yes, those invaluable tens of jobs created by DCs....

The economy is not a jobs program. Stop thinking about it that way. Think in terms of taxes generated instead.

But it was not my argument, was ot?

It wasn't mine. You sort of created it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978872 .

Really, wasn't yours? I mean you literally used "net jobs created" as an argument ?

That part was not discussing data center jobs; it was asking cdrnsf if they'd object to other industries bringing in jobs that just happened to be above median wage (which would increase the COL for existing residents).

Well then, why would you ask them that in this context? Just out of interest and out of the topic context?

How many jobs are created? And how many jobs were also lost because of AI? A few jobs created vs thousands or more lost isn't a positive.

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