Show threadEric Maugendre about carbon2d ago

This new book explains why your elderly parents’ retirement home, the nursery where you drop your children, or the company that pipes water into your kitchen is taken over by an increasingly intricate and deregulated industry.

If a private equity fund is "buying something using a lot a debt, [then] all of that debt is loaded onto the company that the private equity fund has acquired."
"Private equity has moved into care homes, housing, water, nurseries and other essential services."
"We have the power for it to be done otherwise."

Hettie O’Brien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAJKiVQZaks via @oscarjiminy

#mortality #publicHealth #housing #publicServices #retirement #careHomes #hospital #expansion #development #LBO #privateFinance #finance #privateFinance #privateEquity #capitalism #publicPolicy #assets #England #Wales #Scotland #privateSector #UK #Britain #Blackstone #property #realEstate #buildToRent #Macquarie #childCare #careIndustry #taxBreaks #pensions #extraction

How Private Equity Sold Out the West | Hettie O’Brien & Vicky Spratt

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AhimsaJun 10

"Hillsboro will investigate data center moratorium after residents’ outcry"

#GiftLink = https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2026/06/hillsboro-will-investigate-data-center-moratorium-after-residents-outcry.html?gift=288fd93f-8808-42ef-815e-8bd8ba8dae71

"Hillsboro took the first steps Tuesday toward shutting down development of new data centers in the suburban community as the city council scrambled to respond to community outrage over the industry’s growth and impacts."

"The city is responding to a flood of 17 tax break applications tech companies submitted this spring … "

#Oregon #Hillsboro #DataCenters #Tech #TaxBreaks

andybrwnJun 5
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/eNDCh01LUb #DataCenters #TaxBreaks
💧🌏 Greg CocksMay 28
Erin Brockovich Asks Americans For Help As She Launches Data Center Map
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https://www.newsweek.com/erin-brockovich-asks-americans-for-help-as-she-launches-data-center-map-11989813 <-- shared media article
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https://brockovichdatacenter.com/ <-- shared Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting web site
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https://youtu.be/fp5ozQraKf4?si=7qu3g77iVVD3GGFJ <-- shared media video, @cbs Sunday Morning, “Nationwide boom in AI data centers stirs resistance”
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #USA #nation #AI #datacenters #waterresources #utilities #energyconsumption #water #hydrology #hydrography #watermanagement #community #humanimpacts #costs #economics #ewaste #noise #risk #hazard #electricity #localcommunities #taxbreaks #cooling #energy #highenergyusage #infrastructure #landuse #environment #ecology #public #skepticism #environmentalimpact #scalability #growth #Virginia #Utah #Texas #Ohio #Arizona #Georgia
#ErinBrockovichFoundation #ErinBrockovich
Hacker NewsMay 15

Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center

https://fortune.com/2026/05/14/meta-data-center-tax-break-hyperion-louisiana/

#HackerNews #Meta #Louisiana #taxbreaks #data #center #investment #technology

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

States are awarding more than $5.6 billion annually to data center developers, and that’s a conservative estimate.

Fortune
Show threadEric Maugendre about carbonApr 22

How "federal policies increase debt and home size — and thereby sprawl": https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-the-government-built-the-american-dream-house

#housing #taxBreaks #mortgage #wealth #realEstate #assets #ownership #property #realEstate #insurance #loans #debt #taxes #urbanSprawl #policy #homeLoans

How the Government Built the American Dream House

U.S. housing policy claims to promote homeownership. Instead, it encourages high prices, sprawl, and NIMBYism.

The New Atlantis
kctiptonApr 21
Abilene Is Paying The Price For Texas’ Billionaire Giveaways https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/abilene-is-paying-the-price-for-texas?publication_id=1220969&post_id=194859924&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=44gllt&triedRedirect=true #texas #datacenters #taxbreaks #giveaways #fiasco
Abilene Is Paying The Price For Texas’ Billionaire Giveaways

While billion-dollar tech companies get tax breaks, residents deal with rising rent, traffic, and a city pushed to the brink.

Lone Star Left
Headlines AfricaApr 14
Trump uses McDonald’s Oval Office stunt to tout new US tip tax break http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TS1nHN #Trump #McDonalds #OvalOffice #TaxBreaks #USPolitics
kctiptonApr 9
Texas losing a billion dollars a year on data center tax break https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/08/texas-data-centers-sales-tax-break-billion-dollars/ #capitalism #taxbreaks #Texas #stupidity
Texas is giving data centers more than $1 billion in tax breaks each year

The tax break is one of the state’s costliest incentive programs and soon to be the most expensive of its kind in the nation.

The Texas Tribune
KillBait NewsApr 7

New Tax Break for Gig Workers and Tipped Employees: What You Need to Know

📰 Original title: What gig workers and employees who get tips need to know about the new no-tax-on-tips tax break

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/new-tax-break-for-gig-workers-and-tipped-employees-what-you-need-to-know/?redirpost=5bf98279-71a6-41cb-a15b-8923e5f4aed0

#economy #taxbreaks #gigeconomy #tips

New Tax Break for Gig Workers and Tipped Employees: What You Need to Know

In July 2025, the U.S. passed a new tax reform package that includes a significant tax break for gig workers and tipped employees. Workers in industries where tips are common—such as restaurant…

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