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Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)
• Amazon Will Pay for Your Community College. Not Its Full Property Tax (businessmodelanalyst.com) — Microsoft has agreed to redirect a $5 million yearly incentive from its Mount Pleasant data center tax district back to the village, potentially boosting local budgets without raising residents' taxes. The article contrasts Microsoft's no-local-tax-break stance with Amazon's continued reliance on abatements, explaining how large data-center deals, including Mount Pleasant's, shape what communities actually receive versus what they give up.
• If a data center is camouflaged in the woods, will anyone hate it? (theverge.com) — Microsoft's plan to make its AI data centers blend into local environments includes a high-profile restoration project at its new Mount Pleasant campus, where it helped restore a creek and added advanced stormwater controls. The piece weighs these nature-inspired efforts against the broader environmental costs of rapidly expanding AI infrastructure, highlighting how communities like Mount Pleasant may see local ecological benefits even as global emissions rise.
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