Data centers have become a major economic development battleground for many states, even though they provide relatively few jobs and consume massive amounts of resources.

Business welfare state!

It better be with all the education and Medicaid cuts.

Honestly kind of surprised they'd put a data center there. Isn't Louisiana known for swamps and hurricanes?

Right? Wouldn’t the insurance costs outweigh how cheap the land is?

It seems that most times it ends up not being worth it.

All that destruction to provide a couple of hundred jobs. These dumbass politicians think Meta is bringing in a factory, like the old days.

North eastern Louisiana is no more likely to see a hurricane than southern Arkansas or mid-Mississippi

Louisiana has been doing this for decades. It's the same old story of large corporations getting massive tax breaks while little guys gets screwed over.

musk put grok in bum fuck middle oTENNESEE polluting the area.

because these welfare states offer next to no corporate taxes thats why they move there. even WF is based in texas, a chain for the "eco-conscious customers"

Only south Louisiana. They’re putting the data center more north.

I knew a very large company that was offered a hundred million dollars if they would build their factory in Louisiana. They didn’t do it because the workforce could not support the factory. Not enough engineers and higher education workers, but plenty of line workers.

Mets is going to take the money and run. They’ll meet minimum requirements then hollow it out.

Who is WF?

Wayfair, maybe? Online furniture store.

My first thought was Wells Fargo but they’d burn down a rainforest for an extra tenth of a percent.

...and it's turned them into the state with the highest standard of living in the US....right?