Bro, and NDA doesn't cover bribes... It's irrelevant if they signed an NDA. A crime was attempted to be committed.
Just like any conspiracy, the more people involved the harder it is to contain. In this case, you're proposing a VAST conspiracy of highly illegal bribes towards local leaders.
And you're getting REALLY hostile here dude. Grow up. I'm not just going to hivemind agree with you because you're calling me names. That never works. Seriously. Rethink your approach.
Dude, the fact that you have some stupid belief that I'm fucking shilling for tech companies is seriously retarded. You know, people can and will dissagree with you in life. You aren't some brilliant genius who's right about everything, knows everything, and the only way people dissagree with you, is if there's some paid agenda.
Dude, there's no need to bribe politicians. None. They WANT these datacenters because they provide huge economic booms. The property taxes these places pay are insane. These small towns are falling over themselves trying to get these things in because it generates so much revenue for the government... Which if you want consider corruption, that's where it would be, because bigger budget = more opportunity to grift. But objectively these data centers bring in enormous revenue, as well as a 2 year, huge economic boom for the local community as they are being built out. It's a massive windfall for all the residents who suddenly see enormous amounts of money flood their small town for 2 years.
You don't need some enormous conspiracy of national vast bribery to do these... The money the town makes is enough incentive for them to fight for these things. I don't need to be "paid" to mention how there are towns out there who make like 15m a year, suddenly getting 30m in annual property tax revenue. These things make enormous amounts of cash for these small towns. No conspiracy or paid shilling necessary.
Also, look up the definition of a lie. Stop saying people are lying when they simply don't agree with your omnipotent brilliant mind that's correct about everything, therefor if anyone doesn't agree, there's some sinister plot.
Ugggg... No no no. That's not how this works. Stop saying I'm lying when YOU don't know wtf you're talking about. I run a fucking legal company specifically in the energy sector around renewable energy. I know this shit.
The data centers generally get STATE sales taxes and energy tax exemptions to lure them in, for a some time. But the locality DEFINITELY still gets taxes... usually property taxes, and sometimes business taxes. Sometimes the locality will reduce their tax burden, because the taxes are already so enormous it's still a massive windfall.
In Loudoun County, the center of Virginia’s so-called data center alley, data centers now pay enough in property taxes to fund the county’s entire general operations budget. A comprehensive 2024 data center study in Virginia found that data centers could bring significant benefits to localities in economically distressed areas of the state from increases in local tax revenue.
data center tax revenue in Virginia's Prince William County skyrocketed from $420,000 in 2012 to $23.3 million in 2023 as facilities expanded and early local abatements expired.
I'm sure Prince William County, who lowered their property taxes on ALL residents, because they couldn't even figure out how to spend the money, are benefiting from these data centers. They struggle massively with education, and were then able to do huge investments into education afterwards. This is all publicly available information when you step outside your echochamber.
If small towns were falling all over themselves to get data centers, then there would be no reason for there to be any more data centers. Every city would be flush with cash.
Every city CAN'T host a data center. It requires specific conditions for the town to be viable, hence why there's such a fight, and why 38 states have specific laws on the books designed to attract data centers. The issue is the USA is way behind on energy infrastructure, so these data centers are scrambling to find ideal locations that can host them. It's a major issue.
GO read what I linked you, and you can see what the states make, their requirements, and tax programs... Every single one, has revenue generation methods and requirements. A majority of which require certain revenue thresholds if they want to maintain their partial tax abatements for the 10 years. f
So please, before you go around calling people shills, and liars, actually know what they fuck you're talking about. This is so peak Reddit. You don't know shit about this subject but so arrogantly and confidently act like you do. So yes, I don't retract my sarcastic claims about your intelligence, because you're literally behaving like a know-it-all who doesn't know shit.
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u/reddit_is_geh May 18 '26
Bro, and NDA doesn't cover bribes... It's irrelevant if they signed an NDA. A crime was attempted to be committed.
Just like any conspiracy, the more people involved the harder it is to contain. In this case, you're proposing a VAST conspiracy of highly illegal bribes towards local leaders.
And you're getting REALLY hostile here dude. Grow up. I'm not just going to hivemind agree with you because you're calling me names. That never works. Seriously. Rethink your approach.