Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple and Amazon collect over $2 billion in data center subsidies across the United States, averaging $1.95 million per permanent job created. Good Jobs First finds that ten states disclose no program cost data and that most subsidies are automatic — requiring no competitive application or performance benchmarks.
Money Lost to the Cloud: How Data Centers Benefit from State and Local Government Subsidies
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Kasia Tarczynska
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