Digital Realty offers Kansas households $1,000/year to win data center approval
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-10-15
Per Bloomberg, Digital Realty is offering every household in De Soto, Kansas up to $1,000 a year for 10 years in property tax or utility credits, funded by a $20M community fund — before its data center has full approval.
- The fund works out to $2M a year, enough for 2,000 full credits in a town of about 7,000 people
- Rival developer Beale Infrastructure has committed $9.4M for water infrastructure and up to $20M for public projects in the same town
- Community benefit packages are becoming a competitive lever in hyperscale site selection
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