Data centers could bring needed tax revenue to Orleans County
Editor:
Hub Editor Tom Rivers recently suggested the excellent idea that the county create a task force to come up with ideas to increase sale tax revenue. As part of the task force work, I suggest the hiring of a consultant to look into luring computer data centers to the county.
In Loudoun County, Virginia where I live, the county has data centers. In 2023, the Loudoun County government received 663 million dollars in data center tax revenue.
Listed here are only a few data centers the county/task force should contact: Microsoft, AWS, Google, ViSA, COPT, Evoque, Cogent, Equinix.
There are hundreds more.
Jack Capurso
Albion Class of 1960
Ashburn, Va.
