Allie Beth Stuckey

they can be in places that aren't as densely populated.

And in the most part, that's the case.

Some parts, it's probably not the case.

Now, what's happening here is states and local municipalities, they are encouraging these data centers to be built in their area.

And why do they do that?

Well, they do it because it brings extra tax revenue generally and maybe more jobs, although it doesn't take a lot of people to run a data center.

That is more jobs.

Certainly it takes them to build the data centers.

There's a lot of construction jobs that go on.

And those are, you know, those are all good.

However, what is happening in some of these states and my state's been a part of it, too, is that they give them incentives, right?

huge incentives to come and build the data center here, because if my state doesn't give them an incentive, the next state over will.

And when incentives, I mean, that's like tax abatements, meaning they don't have to pay tax for a certain period of time, or they may even give them some type of grant, or maybe they give them a lower electricity cost, something like that.

So it's a real problem, and it's a controversy.

This is where you can contact your local city council,

And let them know your concerns about it.

Make sure that you do that.

Hey, I want to know.

Ideally, I wouldn't like a data center next to me, but I also want to know what's going on with how are they getting their electricity?

What type of incentives are they being done?