I can't say I'm overly familiar with Italy's tax regime (besides googling and confirming they effectively don't tax agricultural land) but the large Meta data center is paying >$22 million in taxes to a county with ~2,000 people[1]. In Northern Virginia they re collecting over a billion dollars a year in taxes from data centers [2]. Allegedly that reduces household tax burden by ~$6k per year.

I have no relation to the data center industry at all, it is just weird to see the discourse around it be so divorced from reality. There is a commenter below me saying that land ownership is illegitimate in the first place in order to justify banning data centers.

Is your understanding that the only tax burden on data centers is via income to local employees?

[1]. https://www.shreveportbossieradvocate.com/business/meta-data... [2]. https://progresschamber.org/insights/data-centers-cut-proper...