Microsoft wants all its spending on reopening Three Mile Island to come from taxpayer funded loans, and wants tax credits to reimburse it for the fact the electricity it generates will be so expensive

Lugh@futurology.today · 3 months ago

Microsoft wants all its spending on reopening Three Mile Island to come from taxpayer funded loans, and wants tax credits to reimburse it for the fact the electricity it generates will be so expensive

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · edit-2 3 months ago

But muh jobs! /s

Depressingly, a factory is tangible, and the economic benefits of not subsidising things randomly based on political expediency are subtle. Add in the occasional edge cases where subsidies actually make sense (idle military manufacturing capacity during peacetime, for example) and this is a law that tends not to be put in place or stay in place.

Microsoft wants all its spending on reopening Three Mile Island to come from taxpayer funded loans, and wants tax credits to reimburse it for the fact the electricity it generates will be so expensive

Microsoft wants all its spending on reopening Three Mile Island to come from taxpayer funded loans, and wants tax credits to reimburse it for the fact the electricity it generates will be so expensive

Refurbished Three Mile Island Payment Structure Is Not Quite What It Seems - CleanTechnica