Reposted by Williamina Knifewoman
this relies on the assumption that data centers actually pay into their communities literally at all, when in reality most states give them (or, increasingly, gave them) generous tax breaks and subsidies to be built in the first place
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Policy Snapshot: Data Center Incentives
A snapshot of state actions on data center incentives.
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'Petri dish for disease': attorney raises alarm of possible Covid outbreak at
'Alligator Alcatraz'
A respiratory disease is running rampant through Florida immigration jail, according to attorney of a detained person
Richard Luscombe in Miami
Tue 12 Aug 2025 09.00 EDT
He added: "Based on what multiple detainees have told me, in the last 72 to 100 hours, there is some respiratory disease which has made the majority, or I would even say vast majority of detainees, sick in some form.
"There are people who are losing breath. There are people who are walking around coughing on one another. Their requests for masks from the guards are denied, and they only are allowed to shower once or maybe twice a week.
"I said to Luis, 'pass the phone. Let me hear it from somebody else. I just want to make sure that people's stories are straight! And unfortunately they very much are."
The development follows a claim by a woman, a state licensed corrections officer, who said she contracted Covid-19 after working at the camp in unsanitary conditions for about a week last month, and was subsequently fired.
"We had to use the porta-johns. We didn't have hot water half the time. Our bathrooms were backed up," the woman told NBC6 News after being granted anonymity to discuss conditions there.
"[The detainees] have no sunlight. There's no clock in there. They don't even know what time of the day it is.
The bathrooms are backed up because so many people [are] using them."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:reatxkwxwfh2osvbkbxyjktg/bafkreiav55ygaif6qb76rolplb3ydimsxu5vzmhytevcgnznw2ixalmwpe)
