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re: CNBC: To land Meta’s massive $10 billion data center, Louisiana pulled out all the stops
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:11 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:11 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Yes that is a list of everything that is exempt from sales tax, again read the document. damn sorry for your clients if your are this obtuse they are getting hosed
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Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:12 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Im 100% for it.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:14 pm to b_w
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damn sorry for your clients if your are this obtuse they are getting hosed
The states are who are obtuse, I have to fight the frickers all the time on the laws they wrote
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:18 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Of course.
They write shite, and you still have to argue with the local municipalities and state-worker drones to get it.
They write shite, and you still have to argue with the local municipalities and state-worker drones to get it.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:20 pm to nicholastiger
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sounds more and more like a Edwin Edwards type deal with taxpayers paying higher utility costs
It sounds like the state even gave them the land. CNBC stated Louisiana originally purchased the property for a car factory 20 years ago. I guess they were ready to get it off their books.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:21 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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The state offered billions of dollars in tax breaks to win the project,
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This will bring in millions upon millions of tax dollars to Richland parish
Lol this is why it's controversial
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:29 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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The states are who are obtuse, I have to fight the frickers all the time on the laws they wrote
wait in this thread you have been arguing that they will have to pay sales tax on all this equipment... is that your speciality getting your clients to pay more in taxes? I've never heard of this type of practice...
anyway this project is a win for that part of the state imho, no sales taxes were being generated anyhow and this will see some benefits in construction jobs, power plant jobs, restaurants, hotels etc.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:31 pm to b_w
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wait in this thread you have been arguing that they will have to pay sales tax on all this equipment... is that your speciality getting your clients to pay more in taxes? I've never heard of this type of practice...
What?
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:32 pm to Bigdawgb
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The state offered billions of dollars in tax breaks to win the project,
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Lol this is why it's controversial
How much in taxes does empty land owned by the state pay?
Meta could pay one singular dollar in taxes and generate one singular job and it would be a net positive for the area where that center will be located.
As it is I can tell you it has been a boon for the secondary businesses due to the construction.
This post was edited on 6/25/25 at 5:33 pm
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:32 pm to IMJ127
What about the power coming in, the transportation coming in, the hotel and food revenue to do business there and other things coming in to support on a daily basis? No clue no care I see.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:34 pm to lsuconnman
From my sauce who is from there; land had a build by date or it would revert back to original owners. Date was missed and previous owners took land back and now they’re rich beotch.
Zillow has a 3b2ba on 117 acs listed for $3.5mill, 1970 ranch $750,000 and all original.
I hope they get asking price.
Zillow has a 3b2ba on 117 acs listed for $3.5mill, 1970 ranch $750,000 and all original.
I hope they get asking price.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:36 pm to Chicken
Aren’t these just a giant drain on energy to run a bunch of servers so people can goon and cybersex with chatgpt?
Everyone else is trying to avoid these things. It’s one thing to be California’s port-o-potty but not sure why we’d pay to do it.
Everyone else is trying to avoid these things. It’s one thing to be California’s port-o-potty but not sure why we’d pay to do it.
This post was edited on 6/25/25 at 5:37 pm
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:36 pm to Chicken
Is there a number on how many permanent jobs will be filled?
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:38 pm to Ruston Trombone
quote:I am not sure you can cybersex with Chat GPT...I asked it to tell me some dirty jokes and it refused...
Aren’t these just a giant drain on energy to run a bunch of servers so people can goon and cybersex with chatgpt?
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:40 pm to Ruston Trombone
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Everyone else is trying to avoid these things.
Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama among others are fighting for these things
Posted on 6/25/25 at 6:04 pm to Jim Rockford
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The local schools will have to absorb several hundred new students with no increase in funds to offset the impact.
The new students due to workers moving in the parish doesn’t also mean increased property taxes if they build homes?
Now that question aside, not sure what to think about this here. Especially if it causes grid issues and expenses that negatively affects current customers.
This post was edited on 6/25/25 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 6/25/25 at 6:04 pm to Chicken
That's a lot of data to track dinner pictures
Posted on 6/25/25 at 6:28 pm to Chicken
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I am not sure you can cybersex with Chat GPT...I asked it to tell me some dirty jokes and it refused..
Probably directed you back to your own site.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 6:38 pm to Chicken
Tax breaks and sex chatbots aside, the real factor to decide whether these data centers are a plus for Louisiana is to determine how much Meta will pay for the massive amounts of power they will consume.
If that has not been published then that should be asked and answered.
As an earlier post by Billjamin pointed out, if Meta pays less than average rate payers, then someone else may be asked to subsidize Meta.
So far as who might be asked to pay higher rates to make up for the data center, there is an interesting ongoing dispute between Entergy in Mississippi and a local newspaper publisher in Madison Co. that questioned the benefits of an Amazon data center vs. the ultimate and ongoing cost to residential ratepayers.
The article is longish but worth a read for insight into the negotiating practices and spin on behalf of these data centers.
Nothside Sun newspaper editor describes Entergy encounter
If that has not been published then that should be asked and answered.
As an earlier post by Billjamin pointed out, if Meta pays less than average rate payers, then someone else may be asked to subsidize Meta.
So far as who might be asked to pay higher rates to make up for the data center, there is an interesting ongoing dispute between Entergy in Mississippi and a local newspaper publisher in Madison Co. that questioned the benefits of an Amazon data center vs. the ultimate and ongoing cost to residential ratepayers.
The article is longish but worth a read for insight into the negotiating practices and spin on behalf of these data centers.
Nothside Sun newspaper editor describes Entergy encounter
Posted on 6/25/25 at 6:50 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Millions of dollars worth of shite that doesn’t process, store, or retrieve, or process data.
One rack can be $15k-$20k, they’ll likely have hundreds (maybe thousands) of them in this facility
I mean they included a whole bunch of shite that explicitly doesn’t actually process, store, or retrieve data. The exemption seems to include:
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Equipment necessary for the transformation, generation, distribution, or management of electricity required to operate computer server equipment
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Equipment necessary to cool and maintain a controlled environment for the operation of computer servers and the data center
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Equipment, materials, and services necessary for the development, acquisition, construction, expansion, and renovation of a qualified data center
Cooling equipment, power generation/transmission equipment, construction/engineering/etc… none of this stuff “processes, stores, or retrieves data.”
As far as racks, I’m not sure how “computer server equipment, including” … “racks” would not include the hundreds/thousands of.. well.. server racks being installed.
Regardless, I was surprised to see that they have an exemption for both sales and use tax. How does that even work? Every contractor working at the site gets a tax exemption certificate?
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