They can be taxed. There should be a point where the price is right for the community hosting.
I've seen multiple stories already talking about how these installations are almost universally net-negative for the locales they're built in.
Maybe if someone is in Congress, they can skirt the law around lobbyist gifts due to your position of power, but 1. it doesn't sound very plausible that someone becomes a multimillionaire by squirreling away illegal gifts or campaign funds and 2. to become I doubt small town city councils making these decisions are in a similar place. Most of reality is boring and not like the movies.