Im in Appalachian TN. What towns in Appalachian Tennessee are specifically being shaken down? I'm having trouble getting a clear sense. Nashville doesn't qualify, of course. I know Claiborne County TN has been approached.
The push for data centers is obvious, as is the harm they do. Less so why the tax breaks for corporations coming into a locality for their supposed job creation, a belief common even in the most progressive areas. It's because of the dominant economic theory; neolib is the political term, neoclassical is the econ one. Specifically, the Chicago School of Economics as founded by Milton Friedman. Who advised the Chilean dictator Pinochet because "democracy interferes with Market efficiency." Rural nobodies who object are simply displaying their ignorance. Same excuse the D elite and their PMC loyalists had for the last election: they're "stupid."
The Chi School is based on little, if any, empirical data. It's basically argument by assertion. It comes from a deep hatred of the New Deal and Keynesian economics--that silly consideration of the (ugh) common good. Among the assumptions of the neoclassicals is that devastation of communities and destruction of ecosystems are externalities. They don't count.
Another assumption is that vaunted trickle down. (In reality, trickle up.) Therefore the best way to create more jobs is to have more employers, and to attract them, tax breaks. This slides right by the fact our economy is still 70% consumer driven, and since the working class/middle class is the majority, what we buy is the real job creator. But since even Ds buy into (or were bought by) the current econ system, they do same as Rs. After the '08 crash, the Ds bailed out the Wall Street perpetrators while the millions of us workers who lost jobs, pensions, homes got nothing. The belief was tending to the top eventually benefits the bottom. Unimportant folks in the Rust Belt, Appalachia, and similar places know by decades of bitter experience that's a lie.
The large University in San Marcos, Texas where I once had my career had built a data center. Back then, I didn't have a clue what it was all about. The specifics of this odd, windowless non-descript building were on the hush-hush.
Having retired and now living in Reno, NV and being far more aware of data centers, I know that, while they generate only temporary jobs, they do not generate any substantial long-term employment. They also are a major detriment to infrastructure including the electrical grid, are water-devouring of natural water resources while returning polluted water back into the environment, and are air polluting entities.
They are, thanks to the Trump ass•ministration, being promoted heavily, are being given massive tax cuts and tax breaks for incentive, and are almost virtually unregulated.
Here in Reno, a long-term moratorium has been adopted and placed on current and future development and construction of data centers until near the end of the year 2027 until which time regulation can be sorted out and implemented.
Our citizens stood up, spoke out protested and voted to make this moratorium pass.
We we value our limited water and energy resources here the mountain deserts of the Reno area.
Our beautiful Truckee River that runs from Lake Tahoe on the border of Nevada and California, through Reno to Pyramid Lake here in Nevada and we want her protected. Pyramid Lake is as pristine as pristine can get and we'll fight the good fight to keep as such and protect them from harm.
Data centers should be forced to protect our ecology and environment by finding other, non-invasive, non-destructive methods in which to operate.
Data centers should be made to pay fair taxes on their properties, their development and their construction, as well as their continued operation(s) and incomes rather than be given massive, unfair tax incentives and deregulations.
Data centers should also be made to develop their properties in such ways as to avoid being eyesores on the landscape.
America, as a whole and in general, is a beautiful country with landscapes and environments not found elsewhere, and includes many diverse and individual geographical regions from desert, to mountains (and a combination thereof), coastal plains and seacoasts, and plains of the Midwest and more.
We also host an incredibly diverse array of natural species not found elsewhere.
I urge all Americans at every level to protect this nation's valuable resources and regions nationwide from the scourge of dada centers.
Im in Appalachian TN. What towns in Appalachian Tennessee are specifically being shaken down? I'm having trouble getting a clear sense. Nashville doesn't qualify, of course. I know Claiborne County TN has been approached.
The push for data centers is obvious, as is the harm they do. Less so why the tax breaks for corporations coming into a locality for their supposed job creation, a belief common even in the most progressive areas. It's because of the dominant economic theory; neolib is the political term, neoclassical is the econ one. Specifically, the Chicago School of Economics as founded by Milton Friedman. Who advised the Chilean dictator Pinochet because "democracy interferes with Market efficiency." Rural nobodies who object are simply displaying their ignorance. Same excuse the D elite and their PMC loyalists had for the last election: they're "stupid."
The Chi School is based on little, if any, empirical data. It's basically argument by assertion. It comes from a deep hatred of the New Deal and Keynesian economics--that silly consideration of the (ugh) common good. Among the assumptions of the neoclassicals is that devastation of communities and destruction of ecosystems are externalities. They don't count.
Another assumption is that vaunted trickle down. (In reality, trickle up.) Therefore the best way to create more jobs is to have more employers, and to attract them, tax breaks. This slides right by the fact our economy is still 70% consumer driven, and since the working class/middle class is the majority, what we buy is the real job creator. But since even Ds buy into (or were bought by) the current econ system, they do same as Rs. After the '08 crash, the Ds bailed out the Wall Street perpetrators while the millions of us workers who lost jobs, pensions, homes got nothing. The belief was tending to the top eventually benefits the bottom. Unimportant folks in the Rust Belt, Appalachia, and similar places know by decades of bitter experience that's a lie.
The large University in San Marcos, Texas where I once had my career had built a data center. Back then, I didn't have a clue what it was all about. The specifics of this odd, windowless non-descript building were on the hush-hush.
Having retired and now living in Reno, NV and being far more aware of data centers, I know that, while they generate only temporary jobs, they do not generate any substantial long-term employment. They also are a major detriment to infrastructure including the electrical grid, are water-devouring of natural water resources while returning polluted water back into the environment, and are air polluting entities.
They are, thanks to the Trump ass•ministration, being promoted heavily, are being given massive tax cuts and tax breaks for incentive, and are almost virtually unregulated.
Here in Reno, a long-term moratorium has been adopted and placed on current and future development and construction of data centers until near the end of the year 2027 until which time regulation can be sorted out and implemented.
Our citizens stood up, spoke out protested and voted to make this moratorium pass.
We we value our limited water and energy resources here the mountain deserts of the Reno area.
Our beautiful Truckee River that runs from Lake Tahoe on the border of Nevada and California, through Reno to Pyramid Lake here in Nevada and we want her protected. Pyramid Lake is as pristine as pristine can get and we'll fight the good fight to keep as such and protect them from harm.
Data centers should be forced to protect our ecology and environment by finding other, non-invasive, non-destructive methods in which to operate.
Data centers should be made to pay fair taxes on their properties, their development and their construction, as well as their continued operation(s) and incomes rather than be given massive, unfair tax incentives and deregulations.
Data centers should also be made to develop their properties in such ways as to avoid being eyesores on the landscape.
America, as a whole and in general, is a beautiful country with landscapes and environments not found elsewhere, and includes many diverse and individual geographical regions from desert, to mountains (and a combination thereof), coastal plains and seacoasts, and plains of the Midwest and more.
We also host an incredibly diverse array of natural species not found elsewhere.
I urge all Americans at every level to protect this nation's valuable resources and regions nationwide from the scourge of dada centers.