>BREAKING: Texas Is Letting Data Centers Skip A Projected $3.3 Billion In Sales Taxes.>While Texas families and small businesses pay sales tax every day, qualifying data centers can skip it on major equipment.>The tax break started in 2013. It cost Texas $14.6 million then. Now senators say the cost could hit $3.3 billion by 2028-29.>A data center can qualify with a $200 million investment and just 20 jobs. Some giant projects can get up to 20 years of tax breaks.>With data centers moving into North Texas, Texas senators are finally asking whether Texans are getting enough back.>Should Texas keep letting data centers skip billions in sales taxes?
>>539625368These things would be so much less of a problem if they built them vertically upward or underground. I would support tax cuts or subsides if they built them vertically and developed the technology to do so.
>>539625582Could be a fire and heat control thing, each server rack generates a massive amount of heat and like 1/2 the center is there literally just to get rid of said heat, heat moves upwards and you'd cook the whole thing stacking them like that.
>>539625977Yea its more expensive and more complicated but im sure theres a lot of improvement to be made in technologies for such things, its gonna happen sooner or later. If they should ever get a tax cut or subsidies, it should be for this
>>53962536833 you say?
>>5396253683.3 fucking masons!
>>539625368>Should Texas keep letting data centers skip billions in sales taxes?Yes. Fuck all taxes and fuck all tax cattle to death
>>539625368Yeah. Funny how the investors are suddenly trying to offload these things, even though they're the "moneymaker of the future". I'm too old but you youngsters are gonna have some hella cool indoor paintball arenas.
>>539628181The only good paintball is woodsball (which was/is awesome). I'm guessing it's hardly existent now unless you just own a lot of land in forested areas. You used to just be able to rent out really nice campsites for it like 15-20 years ago for 4-5 hours for cheap.
>>539625368>A data center can qualify with a $200 million investment and just 20 jobs.Datacenters run themselves. If they need someone to check it they will just fly someone down from New York.But they do need to dust off the servers every now so and then...maybe those are the jobs they're talking about.
Masonic cyberpunk dystopia
>>539625977Yeah but it'd look like a giant PC tower with fans out the side, maybe they could light it up with some sick rgb
>>539625368We won’t do shit.
