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Oregon Residents Riled Over Virtually Staff-free Data Centers Getting Tax-breaks
An anonymous reader writes: The population of Hillsboro, Oregon is becoming vocal about the state's enterprise zone program offering enormous tax concessions to companies setting up data centers in the region — even though the five-year deals on offer only require data center operators to employ one person. That's exactly as many people as one DC plant, Infomart Portland, employs full-time, yet it gets more tax relief than highly-staffed enterprise zone neighbor Solarworld. The current influx of data centers to Hillsboro have only generated seven jobs to date. More installations are coming, and all Hillsboro residents are seeing is space taken up that might have gone to businesses that give something of benefit to the community.
I hear that it frees up people to do more creative things though. ;)
as a resident of Lane County OR, I'd say we have faaaaaaaaaaar too many under employed creative types.
Yeah, and then you'll have a bunch of out work accountants in addition to everybody else.
The unemployed accountants could be paid to throw rocks at windows to generate jobs for glaziers.