To land Meta’s massive $10 billion data center, Louisiana pulled out all the stops. Will it be worth it?

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Data centers have become a major economic development battleground for many states, even though they provide relatively few jobs and consume massive amounts of resources.

  Business welfare state!

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• fuzzywombat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Louisiana has been doing this for decades. It’s the same old story of large corporations getting massive tax breaks while little guys gets screwed over.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTic9btP38

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    …and it’s turned them into the state with the highest standard of living in the US…right?

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• zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  …m.wikipedia.org/…/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It seems that most times it ends up not being worth it.

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• specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I knew a very large company that was offered a billion dollars if they would build their factory in Louisiana. They didn’t do it because the workforce could not support the factory. Not enough engineers and higher education workers, but plenty of line workers.

  Mets is going to take the money and run. They’ll meet minimum requirements then hollow it out.

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• Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Honestly kind of surprised they’d put a data center there. Isn’t Louisiana known for swamps and hurricanes?

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  • captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Right? Wouldn’t the insurance costs outweigh how cheap the land is?

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    • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      North eastern Louisiana is no more likely to see a hurricane than southern Arkansas or mid-Mississippi

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  • Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Only south Louisiana. They’re putting the data center more north.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    musk put grok in bum fuck middle of texas polluting the area.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  All that destruction to provide a couple of hundred jobs. These dumbass politicians think Meta is bringing in a factory, like the old days.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    because these welfare states offer next to no corporate taxes thats why they move there. even WF is based in texas, a chain for the “eco-conscious customers”

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    • specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Who is WF?

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• devolution@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It better be with all the education and Medicaid cuts.

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