▲ 909 ▼ 'We pay taxes so the corporations don’t have to': Amazon to get 100% tax cut for project in Mississippi — when the state has the ‘highest rate of poverty in America.' (finance.yahoo.com) submitted 2 years ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 63 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) You get the Mississippi River though, which can help with both cooling and clean power. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child) That's a thought on the cooling. I don't know how much water-cooling datacenters is a thing, but I remember Google spending a while considering floating datacenters for that reason. It looks like Madison County, where they're building it, isn't on the Mississippi, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_County,_Mississippi It does apparently have some smaller rivers, and maybe they could use those if they're doing water cooling. I don't think that hydropower is a factor either. Apparently they're looking at it, but not on the Mississippi River, and are in fact the only state in the US to have no hydropower generation (at least as of 2021): https://www.psc.ms.gov/sites/default/files/2021-08/FromtheDeskOfBB_HydropowerMissedOpportunityinMS.pdf In terms of hydropower, according to this document from the Mississippi state government, as of 2021, Mississippi is the only US state to do zero hydropower generation. While there are conventional hydropower/hydroelectric facilities that are in nearly every state, one state sticks out as having zero generation from hydroelectric resources – Mississippi. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] guacupado@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago If Los Lunas, NM can host a data center, anywhere in Mississippi can. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child) That's a thought on the cooling. I don't know how much water-cooling datacenters is a thing, but I remember Google spending a while considering floating datacenters for that reason. It looks like Madison County, where they're building it, isn't on the Mississippi, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_County,_Mississippi It does apparently have some smaller rivers, and maybe they could use those if they're doing water cooling. I don't think that hydropower is a factor either. Apparently they're looking at it, but not on the Mississippi River, and are in fact the only state in the US to have no hydropower generation (at least as of 2021): https://www.psc.ms.gov/sites/default/files/2021-08/FromtheDeskOfBB_HydropowerMissedOpportunityinMS.pdf In terms of hydropower, according to this document from the Mississippi state government, as of 2021, Mississippi is the only US state to do zero hydropower generation. While there are conventional hydropower/hydroelectric facilities that are in nearly every state, one state sticks out as having zero generation from hydroelectric resources – Mississippi. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] guacupado@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago If Los Lunas, NM can host a data center, anywhere in Mississippi can. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] guacupado@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago If Los Lunas, NM can host a data center, anywhere in Mississippi can. permalink fedilink source parent