Jasmine Sun
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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Now it's the case that I'm hearing from some local officials, if we did this again today, we wouldn't have to offer any subsidies.
Because, in fact, now there is so much local opposition that the developers are really looking, where is there going to be a local community and a government that is friendly to our project?
How can we, you know, have a Christmas tree ornaments worth of community benefits agreements?
And so just the nature of these deals and how much they are skewed towards communities versus the AI developers has really changed.
For sure.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I think in terms of what people in these communities with these data centers feel when they see the projects come in with their gigantic, like $2 billion of investment, like these gigantic numbers that are being dangled, it feels like a bubble to them.
One, they're seeing news articles saying maybe AI is a bubble.
We don't know it's a bubble, but it could be.
Two, you do have experiences like Foxconn, where you have an
Big tech company show up in a very small community, in this case, Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, a city of like 28,000 people.
It's not very big.
Get, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure investment and tax subsidy from the town.
Promise 13,000 high paying manufacturing jobs and then pull out because the contract wasn't set up correctly.
They decided they didn't actually want to build a bunch of flat screen TVs in Wisconsin.
And the, you know, the town is left on the hook having invested all of this money in the grid and in roads.
They got, I think, a thousand jobs in the end.
Foxconn is still paying back all of this debt that has been accumulated.
And so experiences like that have really, really soured people on the question of when an outside big tech company comes in and, you know,
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