Loudoun County, Virginia is the richest county in the US just outside Washington, D.C. Data center advocates who say small rural towns can replicate its economic success and simultaneously give away special tax breaks to AI companies are dishonest. Here’s why: www.thepublicgood.net/p/dcs-riches...
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D.C.’s richest suburb has had a very different data center experience than rural America.
Rural communities don’t want to be “backwards and poor,” as the President said, but they also likely can’t be Loudoun County, Virginia.