‘The Data Center Equals No New Revenue for Us’: AISD Superintendent Talks District Revenue

‘The data center equals no new revenue for us’: AISD Superintendent talks district revenue

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – While the City of Abilene is experiencing a windfall in revenue related to data center construction, the same is not true for the Abilene Independent School District (AISD). “The data center is fantastic for our community; there's going to be a lot of benefits to it being here, economically. There’s some [...]

Officials say data centers can boost local economies. In Abilene, they have spurred a housing crisis

Abilene was sold on promises that data centers would transform their local economy. But some residents are wondering when the benefits will come.

Counties With Data Centers Are Getting Richer

Earlier this week UP conducted a focus group in a small town in Virginia that has several data centers. We confronted a lot of opposition – which only confirmed that Americans across the country have turned against building of more data centers in their county. The question is why? The chart below shows what we’ve been saying over and over: counties hosting large data centers have tended to experienced faster housing growth, rising home values, …

Americans Aren’t Moving Toward Data Centers, the Data Centers Are Coming to Them - The MortgagePoint

A new report from Realtor.com finds that the American home-sales market's growing proximity to data centers is being driven by where the industry chooses to build, not by any behavioral shift among homebuyers.