Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
摘要
微软今年在多地宣传新建数据中心将做“好邻居”，承诺缴纳支持医院、学校等公共服务的房产税，并派联络人了解社区需求。但社区会议上，其代表对超出宣传材料的投资金额问题常难以作答。公司公开文件承认仅匹配员工慈善捐款并不够，却未明确更大规模本地投资的具体形式。批评者认为，与数据中心开发商在38个州获得的、常持续十余年的数亿美元税收减免相比，微软的本地投资显得偏小。
Microsoft has spent all year telling communities that when it brings a new data center into their area, it is committed to being a “good neighbor." It will pay local property taxes that support local hospitals, schools, parks, and libraries, and it will invest in “vital services the community cares about,” the company promised. And it has sent liaisons into those communities to learn what those needs are.
But ask those liaisons how much the company is willing to invest, and the answers can be hard to come by.
At community meetings, Microsoft representatives have seemed unprepared to answer questions that go beyond the company's “good neighbor” campaign materials, Ars has learned. The company has acknowledged in public-facing documents that simply matching its employees’ charitable donations—which totaled $229 million across 29,000 nonprofits in 2024—isn't enough. But it has been vague about what more substantial local investments might look like. And to critics, Microsoft’s local investments seem especially small compared with the estimated hundreds of millions in state-level tax breaks that data center developers get in 38 states—exemptions that often last more than a decade.
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