Salt Lake County officials are united as foes of Facebook data center

Even with West Jordan offering some concessions, Salt Lake County officials Tuesday stood solidly against the city's plans to attract a Facebook data center with major tax incentives.

The County Council voted 9-0 to instruct its fiscal manager, Dave Delquadro, to vote no when he represents the council at next Monday's meeting of a taxing committee that will decide whether to support West Jordan's proposal to create an Economic Development Project Area (EDA) on 232 acres near State Route 111 and New Bingham Highway.

Casting the other county vote will be Mayor Ben McAdams, who told council members Tuesday, "My concerns are stronger than they were last week. I have serious concerns about this incentive and the benefit, or lack thereof, the state would receive."

He ticked off a list of objections, from the volume of its water and electrical demands to an incentive package that could be worth up to $260 million to the company, to West Jordan's desire for an EDA, which gives the county far less say over the economic development business plan than does a more conventional Community Development Area (CDA).

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