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The population of Hillsboro, Oregon is becoming vocal about the state's enterprise zone program offering enormous tax concessions to companies setting up data centers in the region — even though the 5-year deals on offer only require data center operators to employ one person. That's exactly as many people as one DC plant, Infomart Portland, employs full-time, yet it gets more tax relief than highly-staffed enterprise zone neighbor Solarworld. The current influx of data centers to Hillsboro have only generated seven jobs to date. More installations are coming, and all Hillsboro residents are seeing is space taken up that might have gone to businesses that give something of benefit to the community.
Data centers seem to occupy your power supply capacity and leave you no job (income).
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday February 18 2015, @03:18PM
Data centers seem to occupy your power supply capacity and leave you no job (income).
The obvious rebuttal is that it's not your data center; it's not your power supply capacity; and it's not your job. But what's strange is what's missing. It was your money that was used to displace the potential revenue from these businesses. I wonder at rhetoric that gets it exactly wrong.