Well, you have the actual, physical cost of the datacenter -- the land, the design, the engineers, the permits, the environmental studies, the lawyers, the construction, etc -- and then you have the cost of removing roadblocks along the way. Especially in Louisiana, if you're not familiar with Huey Long: he's been gone for many decades, but his way of doing business down there hasn't changed a bit.

It's exactly like the East Wing ballroom: there's a private fund that Trump opened specifically for businessmen to contribute that will fund the ballroom construction, which has been open and taking donations since he tore the East Wing down, and there's also the bill before Congress, right now, that will have the ballroom paid for by tax dollars, all of it.

"But," you may ask, and rightly so, "why are private contributions needed to fund a ballroom that will be funded entirely by taxes?" and the answer to that is, "Yes."

One of the sure signs you're in a banana republic is that every palm must be greased on the way to getting legal consent for anything, no matter how small. The US is now no different.