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cdrnsftoday at 6:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

Greater than $0 in cost of living increases for people living near these things is too much.


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loegtoday at 6:56 PM

Are you saying any industry that brings in net new jobs with above median wages is bad? Or just ones with few employees and high additional property tax revenue?

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simianwordstoday at 7:29 PM

What a strange thing to say. This is peak NIMBYism and I urge you to reconsider. Loudoun country as an example generates ~1B USD annually [1] from taxes through data centres. That's equivalent to paying an annual salary of $40,000 to around 30k people. That's a LOT.

Do you really not consider taxes before repeating this tired argument?

[1] https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/View/219184/General-F...