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Google Data Center Scandal?
Peter found an alarming post on Nicholas Carr’s Rough Type blog which displays a list of several North Carolina newspapers that are blasting the recent Google Data Center project in Lenior NC.
Among the newspapers he cites in his post are:
- Caldwell County News-Topic
- Charlotte Observer
- Wilmington Morning Star
- Greensboro News-Record
- Raleigh News Observer
It appears that Google was secretly granted as much as a quarter billion dollars in tax breaks, which was more than first reported 8O. That amounts to more than $1 million dollars for each of the 210 jobs created, paid to Google courtesy of NC taxpayers. Evidently, the secrecy and the huge amount does not sit too well with Tarheels.
Nicholas’ great article concludes with this bit of disturbing news:
Under pressure from Google to finalize the deal quickly, local politicians never even bothered to complete an analysis of the economic impact of the tax incentives, reports the Associated Press.
Check out Nicholas’ entire post and, if you are a NC Taxpayer, you might get fired up too.
2 Comments
November 16th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
The fact is that google is using all of us and we should not blindly accept it. Think about going to google.com. There are more stable and better known locations like MSN that are part of stable companies and your search will not be used to drum up business. As google is really new, you can’t be sure that your search is not helping bin laden. You really can’t tell. Google is just a bunch of college kids who of course will miss something. The question is if you want to use their web site so that your searches are used to who knows what means. bin laden is watching you
November 17th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Hi, um… none,
Your argument could apply to any Internet Search / Internet Advertising company, not just Google.
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