Its no wonder Amazon wanted to build there. Poor people make for cheap labour. It might even have been a good deal for Mississippi if they had forced Amazon to allow unions there for getting a free pass!

And in 5 years they are going to automate the entire thing providing precisely 0 jobs to the local economy.

Didn't you kick us out and ruin some perfectly good tea over something something representation?

data centers have low personell overhead don't they? Didn't some state nix their data center incentives precisely because of how few jobs they bring vs how much utilities they consume.

The only reason I can think of building it there is easy access to water.

Eat the rich. Fucking disgusting.

Why do you think they have the highest rate of poverty? They give all their money to people who don't need it.

It's kinda like when David Cross said, of the south, someone who's morbidly obese yet still malnourished comes from there.

But seriously when are we gonna eat Bezos? I'm a vegetarian but I'll take a bite of the billionaire to show my commitment. I'll bring coleslaw.

By the way, if Amazon is doing a project for them, that actually means they're not just paying Zero in taxes, they're also getting paid by the state.

But jerbs creetion!

I mean, Mississippi probably is a good place to put things if you're looking for low labor costs and need to be in the US anyway, even without negotiating a tax break.

I'm not sure that it's the best place to put datacenters, though, which is what this appears to be. Mississippi's got a warm climate, and datacenters tend to need to spend on cooling.

googles

https://dataspan.com/blog/data-center-cooling-costs/

How much does it cost to cool a data center? A cooling system is one of the most expensive parts of any data center.  According to research, anywhere between 30% to 55% of a data center’s energy consumption goes into powering its cooling and ventilation systems — with the average hovering around 40%.

Where do the $10 billion AMZN bucks go? Do any at all go to MS public coffers? The construction will be done by provate companies, components bought from private companies. How about electricity and water? Do those costs go to publicly owned infrastructure? What about the land, surely it's leased but is it owned by the state of MS? If it's just a $10 billion expenditure from Amazon to other corporations and hedge funds it's pretty worthless to the general public, and giving corporate welfare instead of cOMpEtiNG iN ThE fReE MArkET makes it actively harmful to the public good. How many people with potentially groundbreaking ideas will continue to be wage slaves because their state has no grant money to help them start a business? How many children will continue the cycle of poverty (working for Amazon in this case, probably) because their municipality doesn't have fully staffed schools to help them learn to think critically and guide them to scholarships etc.?

AMZN is up 2.8% today.