Oregon Residents Riled Over Virtually Staff-free Data Centers Getting Tax-breaks

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @10:58AM from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

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.

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And so it begins ... by BarbaraHudson · 2015-02-17 11:02 · Score: 5, Insightful

Finally people are waking up to the fact that the digital revolution doesn't necessarily create jobs, jobs, jobs.

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1. Re:And so it begins ... by Lunix+Nutcase · 2015-02-17 13:01 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  There are certianly hundreds, maybe thousands, of jobs in businesses that utilize the gear in that data center.
  
  Which doesn't help the community unless those jobs are paying in tax revenue to Hillsboro to offset the tax breaks. You're clearly being intentionally dense if you don't understand the complaints.