Italian farmers pay effectively 0% taxes on land and the areas are quite poor. Data centers on the other hand pay lots of taxes.
Why would they ban productive uses of land?
Why would they ban productive uses of land?
why should someone be banned from selling their land if they want?
Even if it's not agricultural land, there can be strategically important pieces of land that a country will insist cannot be sold to organisations that are opposed to the values of that country. However, in those cases, it might make more sense for the state to make compulsory purchases of that land.
They don't pay "lots" of taxes. They pay taxes for the two engineers and 8 janitors working there.
I have no relation to the data center industry at all, it is just weird to see the discourse around it be so divorced from reality. There is a commenter below me saying that land ownership is illegitimate in the first place in order to justify banning data centers.
Is your understanding that the only tax burden on data centers is via income to local employees?
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