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Across the country, data centers have become a flashpoint in local politics. Residents have questions about usage of land, water, electricity, as well as noise and the cost of proposed tax incentives. Those questions are fair, and communities should never be asked to approve major infrastructure blindly. But as a finance professor, I would suggest that much of the current debate suffers from a basic analytical flaw: it examines only one half of the balance sheet.
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