I'd prefer we don't datacenter to the gills, but if we're destined to do it anyway, they should offer free Heat/data services to the communities they're thrust upon, and the agreement should be on the datacenter licensing so they can't reorg out of it.

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[–] 5 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

This is what property taxes are supposed to be for. If a data center is putting a load on a community, tax them based on what money is needed to pay for what's needed to counter that load.

Money is much more flexible than barter anyway. Imagine if instead of a data center it was an abbatoir, would you compensate the community for its troubles by giving them huge amounts of free raw meat?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    would you compensate the community for its troubles by giving them huge amounts of free raw meat?

    You should probably ask other people; my decision there is going to be a wildly unpopular hell yes. :)

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago

    This is different. The raw meat of an abattoir is its product, while heat is the byproduct of a datacenter. It's even something they do their best not to have. Distributing that to the community would be a great positive.

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