Will Parker

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WSJ What’s News · How Governments in the U.S. and Europe Are Stalling the AI Buildout · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

And there's a lot of different types of companies involved.

You have the big hyperscale tech companies everyone is familiar with.

But you also have a lot of real estate development firms that are building data centers and then trying to lease it or sell it.

And they're the ones that are really working at the local level and putting themselves in front of the

rooms of angry residents.

But I think the main thing is that the companies trying to bring data centers are trying to emphasize the economic benefits first and foremost.

So the construction jobs they'll create, trying to convey that they'll also create a significant amount of permanent jobs, which is one of the things that data centers are often criticized for not doing very much of.

Putting up what they call community benefit payments in addition to the tax revenue that they'll give.

So that might be money directed to a specific improvement, like a new firehouse or

In the case of the metadata center in Louisiana, the local government there is giving bonuses for public school teachers, which it says it's able to do because of the tax revenue.

Microsoft, for example, put out a commitment to transparency and to say that they won't use nondisclosure agreements when they begin talks with local governments over data centers, which is something that has upset a lot of people, the feeling that data center developers and governments work in secrecy, at least for a time, and the planning of data centers.

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