1. There are already dozens of datacenters in Minnesota. They aren't prompting other businesses to pop up because they are self-contained and self-serving. Furthermore there is no "brand recognition" they are giant unmarked warehouses that could be a datacenter or could just be another nameless storage facility.
2. Why would a datacenter increase land value? This isn't a corporate headquarters, it's a datacenter.
3. Taxes on what? That's what this package is, tax exemtpion.
4. Again, the datacenter employs "20 people" which is really like 4 FTEs and a bunch of cleaning staff. And likely part-time Security guards.
5. There won't be 2,000 jobs to build a datacenter, that's wildly exaggerated. And there's no way in hell that the average construction worker is making even half of the number you just stated.
6. If they were bringing actual jobs, and not a borderline-unmanned datacenter, sure. This isn't that.
2. Why would a datacenter increase land value? This isn't a corporate headquarters, it's a datacenter.
3. Taxes on what? That's what this package is, tax exemtpion.
4. Again, the datacenter employs "20 people" which is really like 4 FTEs and a bunch of cleaning staff. And likely part-time Security guards.
5. There won't be 2,000 jobs to build a datacenter, that's wildly exaggerated. And there's no way in hell that the average construction worker is making even half of the number you just stated.
6. If they were bringing actual jobs, and not a borderline-unmanned datacenter, sure. This isn't that.