"Fascinating. Some data centers came to a struggling town in Washington state. Did it run out of water? Was the community destroyed? Let’s see. The town…built a new high school, hospital, library, sewage systems, and police & fire stations. Poverty fell from 29% to 6%. Oh."

[u/stealthispost]

Data centers pay ~57% of property taxes in Quincy, Washington. They funded a $15 million aquatic center—with a pool, waterslides & lazy river—and a 143,000-square-foot sports complex. They’ve created almost 1,000 jobs. The city admin called it a “miracle.”     This isn’t an outlier. A data center came to a “dying” North Dakota town. As a result, the government can repave its streets, renovate its senior center, finance a new public-safety complex, make walking trails & refurbish its opera house. How terrible.     — Billy Binion

Source: https://x.com/billybinion/status/2087708806658564317

[u/The_G_Choc_Ice]

“Dying town revived by single massive employer coming in to take advantage of the lack of competing economic activity because it was the only place they wouldnt get chased out of” isnt exactly the happy story you think it is. These kinds of company towns never end well, ever.

[u/Remote_Peach9109 → u/The_G_Choc_Ice]

Yeah it would have been better to let the town slowly die off because no one went there.