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Institute for Policy Studies
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NEW: Residents of a small Pennsylvania town are being offered $10,000 each to accept a new Amazon Web Services data center in their community. They're rejecting it anyway. "Our property values are going to drop. Dramatically. If that’s not a bribe, I don’t know what is.”

futurism.comResidents Reject $10,000 Each to Let a Data Center Set Up in Their TownA prospective data center in Pennsylvania is facing drastic opposition, despite a promised $10,000 direct payout to every resident.

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David Bonowitz
@dbonowitz.bsky.social

Good to see they're not falling for these cheap tricks. bsky.app/profile/dbon...

David Bonowitz@dbonowitz.bsky.social

As usual from T, this is the slipshod, corrupt, pro-developer version of Community Benefit Agreements: get a NDA and pay off the decision-makers & the poor who will suffer down the line. But big new DCs do have CBAs. The Q is whether towns have the resources to negotiate w/ Amazon's lawyers.