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Why did you not include the tax they bring in? I think this is a serious omission and points at motivated reasoning. Can you do one where you account for the tax dollars and compare it to similar industries?
Because in reality they don't actually bring in any revenue for the first few years thanks to all the subsidies and tax breaks they demand upfront before construction. At best it would be state and federal taxes used for operations that any operating business brings like federal payroll, but there wouldn't be any property taxes for at least five to ten years and the federal corporate income tax would likely be from t…
> Over the past 20 years, the data center industry in Loudoun County has grown significantly. As a result, the amount of revenue that the county receives from personal property tax revenue on the computer equipment located inside data centers has also grown significantly. Currently, data centers occupy approximately 4 percent of commercial parcels of the land in the county; however, they yield 38% of general fund revenue collected by the county
38% of fund revenue for this county comes from data centres.