That will absolutely decimate Oregon’s job market when companies take all 20 data center jobs to another state.
DATACENTERS EMPLOY HUNDREDS OF WORKERS!!!
For a year or two, during construction. All contractors. After construction, what? Maybe a hundred people on-site?
Why will no one think of the poor, starving, trillion dollar companies? It’s NOT FAIR that they have to pay the same amount as the POORS! /s
It will be quietly repealed or ignored entirely
Or they will find another state that is cheaper for them to build in.
Idaho
+1 for Idaho, they deserve it.
This would be even better.
Time to close that barn door now that they’ve all left. Nice work legislators!
Oh good!
I hope my state requires the same.
But, it should be more--pay the full cost of expanding the power grid plus some additional amount beyond what they need for the use of the state, and pay for ongoing maintenance of the expansion.
Why? Because fuck 'em, that’s why.
