There is something about an Amazon data center that drives state and municipal officials to make mindboggling financial decisions. In recent years, governments across the country have handed the tech behemoth billions of dollars in tax breaks to bring massive data centers to their communities. In return, taxpayers receive little economic benefit and only a few new jobs while being forced to deal with noise pollution, resource depletion, and broken promises. With all the evidence demonstrating how Amazon continues to fail communities, we need to start questioning why these deals continue to proliferate.
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