Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.

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    7 days ago

    I least they got all that money and jobs (right? I’m pretty sure Facebook skirted that actually)

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      Yeah, those data centers definitely must have employed like, three site managers each! So come to think about: hundreds and hundreds of (… okay a little over 100) people employed in all those centers combined. And all it took was to raise electricity prices by 25% for 350k people

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        They also cut the taxes the corporations pay by 50%, at least they didn’t have to build homes or anything useless.