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Nice thing, though, is that it can favor the business and still offer that local municipality benefits far greater than if they hadn't given tax breaks. The devil is in the details, of course, but trying to extract as much from the municipality as possible to the the extent that the municipality has net losses from the transaction is something that would cost the business quite a lot of money, likely with diminishing returns as they have to rely on more and more obscure loopholes (that invite court challenges) or hire more and more expensive lawyers who are better negotiators, and it's not like these data center businesses are lacking for other places in which to invest money that have positive expected value.
I think one aspect that my statement doesn't capture, though, is the humiliation or "pride" at having "won" against the business, which I think may be a big deal for a lot of the politicians and the electorate that support them. I kinda understand that this is important, but also, I kinda don't, and I wish more politicians, ideologues, etc. especially from my side of the aisle, would embrace our side being humiliated if it means that we actually make life better for people; it's only through embracing our humiliation that we can prove to ourselves that we actually care about making life better, rather than about feeling pride at believing that we're the kinds of people who make lives better.
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