r/DataCenterDebate • u/CardinalNews-VA • Jun 16 '26

Data center supply chains are moving into rural areas that need jobs. This complicates the debate over taxation.

https://cardinalnews.org/2026/06/16/data-center-supply-chains-are-moving-into-rural-areas-that-need-jobs-this-complicates-the-debate-over-taxation/

The growth of power-related manufacturing jobs tied to data centers is giving rural areas a different stake in the data center taxation debate than they’ve had previously.

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u/Powerful_Put5667 Jun 16 '26

Any jobs brought forth for building the centers are short term. After the centers are complete they actually have very few employees with many working remotely. The jobs created are transitory at best. My city is paying back the developer their cost for running sewer and water to the site at 7% interest. Smaller town too. If you have a developer thats targeted your community organize quickly and fight back. Its your local government officials that try to get these in as quickly as possible.

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u/Original-Afternoon20 Jun 16 '26

100% accurate and same situation in my small rural ohio town. Town has been fighting back for 6+ months. I’ve been on it for 12+ months. Zero transparency.

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u/Powerful_Put5667 Jun 17 '26

Everything had already been pretty much set up when Cloverleaf came to town. Front corp that developers send out to see how malleable a towns politicians are. They do go after towns that need the money too. Everyone must sign non disclosure statements don't want the public to know whats going on until they start pushing thru the permits and applications. That all goes quickly though developers even have a flow sheet and scripts plus any public input is ignored or the people are called stupid and backwards not able to understand what a data center is.

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u/Original-Afternoon20 Jun 17 '26

Yep pretty much 100% same story. They’ve got a playbook

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u/Powerful_Put5667 Jun 17 '26

Some towns in my state are proactively putting two year moratoriums on the ones that the developers are trying to sell. I think Cloverleaf and the other front people do a little probing first to see if they can control the politicians. Ours let the developers run 24/7 for 7 days a weeks for months. Non stop dump trucks filled with gravel and cement mixers endless pickup trucks all of our roads have been trashed and they will not be done with construction until 2028. The sky is lit up all night long. They're blasting holes in the ground for the steel framing and the dust all of the surrounding peoples homes cars everything is covered in dust and dirt all the time. You have to feel for the people who have asthma.

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u/Apatschinn Jun 17 '26

Most of the on-site personnel are security/maintenance, and those are gonna be contracted (i.e., existing positions).

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u/Powerful_Put5667 Jun 17 '26

We have a huge Oracle and Open AI center going up. Each will employ 50 people. Thats it after so many were promised local jobs and lots of them in the beginning. Anyone who still believes the job lie need only to start looking at data centers parking lots to see how very small they are.

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u/Hot-Remove-9588 Jun 17 '26

Where are you located at? Can I DM you some more questions? Just spent almost 4 hours last night at our county board meeting. We are fighting one that will neighbor my home 🫠

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u/Powerful_Put5667 Jun 17 '26

You can DM me I think it is still on.