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No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Re: No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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>The Amazon centers are property tax-abated for 10 years, providing instead 1.5% income tax on workers via a joint economic development agreement with Marysville. After construction, a small fraction of workers remain to be taxed, she said.

Lol, gotta love the scam. Small town politicians must get some amazing bribes.

>While under construction about a year ago, a worker at the Warren Road Amazon facility was crushed to death, Stewart said. Another fell to his death in February at the Industrial Parkway site. And an April 17 fire at the Industrial Parkway center tied up firefighters for more than 30 hours, causing $50 million in damage, Stewart said. During each call, Stewart said, Amazon officials have not been helpful. "They wanted to do background checks on all my firefighters; I wouldn't let them," he said. "And we've struggled to gain access to emergencies. They'll stop us at the gate, and our medic units have been delayed. They're denying us access to patients.

You immediately arrest have any employee interfering with emergency response and throw them in jail. Repeat until Amazon runs out of employees dumb enough to continue doing so.

Re: No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Post by ksec »

djohnston wrote: post #5

Wow that video of the house next to the mine in Arkansas is nuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHrkZtuVPdU&embeds_referring... I would legitimately have driven my car through that building if I lived here.

How is that legal in US? I am pretty sure that is not legal is many part of the world even if the sound was only on from 9 to 5.

And last time I went to a Datacentre it may be an eye sore but it doesn't produce any noise at all. Do all DC in US produce noise like that?

Re: No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Post by ctkhn »

First off I do think being a NIMBY about amazon and data centers is fair game, I wouldn't want those either. But I've been to Columbus, and as far as the metro area goes, this is not the highest and best use place. There's a lot of land in neighborhoods nearer to downtown actually being redeveloped for higher tax value with residential, offices, shopping, and nightlife or that's primed once developers make their way through Old Town East and Franklinton. Even the land being redeveloped in the new fake-downtowns of suburban developments are more around Dublin and mostly within the bounds of 270.

Re: No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Post by hermannj314 »

delfinom wrote: post #4

>The Amazon centers are property tax-abated for 10 years, providing instead 1.5% income tax on workers via a joint economic development agreement with Marysville. After construction, a small fraction of workers remain to be taxed, she said. Lol, gotta love the scam. Small town politicians must get some amazing bribes. >While under construction about a year ago, a worker at the Warren Road Amazon facility was crushed…

But our CISO paint-by-number checklist says only people with background checks and the NDAs can enter the data center. We can't have emergency services stealing our customer's bits!

Re: No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Post by djohnston »

ksec wrote: post #6
djohnston wrote: post #5

Wow that video of the house next to the mine in Arkansas is nuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHrkZtuVPdU&embeds_referring... I would legitimately have driven my car through that building if I lived here.

How is that legal in US? I am pretty sure that is not legal is many part of the world even if the sound was only on from 9 to 5. And last time I went to a Datacentre it may be an eye sore but it doesn't produce any noise at all. Do all DC in US produce noise like that?

I've been never to one that sounds like that, but I've only been to a handful of small ones. I would imagine a company crude enough to set it up so close to someone's house isn't doing any sort of noise abatement either.
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