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Meta's $10 billion Louisiana data center is getting $3.3 billion in tax breaks—more than seven years of the state's entire police budget (fortune.com)
submitted 16 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.radio to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

more than seven years of the states entire police budget

What a weird line item to compare. TF do the cops, another entity that should be defunded, have to do with this?

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 23 points 15 hours ago

Something the money that Meta won’t be paying won’t be paying for.