Comment by 🍭 cherry
Re: "Traveling for work. Just read an article about a local…"
hope the council is ok with the social and electoral consequences of their constituents almost universally hating data centers once they're built?? lol
Jan 20 · 4 months ago
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🍀 gritty [OP] · Jan 20 at 14:59:
the unions overwhelmingly supported it. no surprise there. I doubt the energy cost was really factored in but I imagine all the council members saw was tax revenue with jobs and approved. Voting against jobs and tax revenue from new businesses is political suicide.
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Traveling for work. Just read an article about a local town council unanimously voting in a new data center. Can't say no to jobs and money.