Dutchess County Aims for Savings with Smaller, Smarter, Shared Government Services

Counties can still welcome data center development, but they need to understand what the landscape is becoming. The machinery, the efficiency, the location, the cooling technology, the entire computing model will all be different.

Data center development across the country has put a new focus on county policies, how they regulate land use and more for local residents and how they could shape the path for economic growth built around artificial intelligence and information technology.

While the property taxes on the land that data centers occupy can be significant, the value of the equipment inside is a substantial addition to the total value.