Jasmine Sun
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827 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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It's probably going to be natural gas in the near future.
Once the data center is fully operational, there is not a ton of air and water pollution, assuming that everything's working correctly.
They are relatively low.
clean facilities.
But, you know, like a lot of folks are concerned about the electricity use.
They're saying, yeah, maybe the data center doesn't use that much water.
Maybe the data center doesn't pollute that much.
But what about all of these, you know, new power plants that they're going to build in order to power it?
Yeah, I mean, so these things do provide an incredible amount of tax revenue, right?
And so in Mount Pleasant, on the old Foxconn site, which ended up being bought out by Microsoft, they saw, oh, there's all this infrastructure already here.
Why don't we build a hyperscale data center on this unused, industrially zoned land?
Microsoft is on track to pay $19.6 million in property taxes in 2026.
This is expected to continue for many years.
Again, this is a small village of 28,000 people.
And so there are really meaningful property tax benefits.
And I do think I find it frustrating personally when anti-data center organizers say that the job creation is a myth, because I think that 500, you know, maybe six figure jobs for folks who go through apprenticeships that maybe don't need college degrees that last two to six years.
That's enough time to build a family.
That's enough time to buy a home.
I think it's super meaningful.
And when I talk to technicians, when I talk to workers, clearly it was extremely meaningful work.
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