Tribune editorial: Data center deal points to lessons learned
A large and well-known tech company seeks deep tax incentives to build a server farm in an open pasture in suburban Utah. The company would invest millions of dollars, bringing hundreds of construction jobs, but once it’s built it would take far fewer jobs to keep the server farm running. It also would take a large chunk of water to keep the servers cool. Is Eagle Mountain’s bid to build a data center between a mink farm and a sewer plant a replay of West Jordan’s 2016 bid for
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