Anyone ever consider that Google could, you know… Afford to fund their own damned data center project if they want it so badly?
Surely the data centres should pay for their utilities including electricity!
Not when you have a Free Market™ sprinkled with lots of Freedom™. And don’t call me Shirley.
The funny thing if they were using that money to build utilities / buildings for the community to use - that could be applauded.
But they are taking money to pay for a for profit company, that will provide for profit services, that will disturb locals for profit.What a disturbing economic equation.
These documents were supposed to stay secret.
Entergy sued local newspapers, trying to keep its deal with Google confidential. The suit failed; the news is out. Entergy plans to hike West Memphis ratepayers’ utility bills by ~$6 each month for the next 20 years, all to fund Google’s new datacenter.
Kinda sounds like a paying-the-electric-bill strike is in order.
