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Very convenient for them that they converted their data centre into a property value destroyer before making this offer. I'm sure that's coincidental.
Offer to buy at 500x the highest value it ever had, when adjusted for inflation, plus 10% of the company's revenue going forward, and maybe I'd consider it.
Yeah an outrageous amount, plus ethical costs to undo all the fuckery, the lost peace, the labor and lost investments, and all of that doubled, is the correct fee.
If the house would have sold for 1m, ask for 50m, then the environmental damage costs in equipment and labor and plants and animals, so now we're up to 1b, doubled to 2b, and a fat 50% fuckyou fee on top and round up to 3b usd.
People need to aim higher. If the company won't pay and will ruin your life instead, then guess their intent is actual war, and they shall have it.
Don't let the bullies win. Fight back.
More reasonable: roll back to before the datacenter was permitted for construction, find substantially equivalent houses in the general area - 20% more square footage, 20% higher value per square foot, and track their values over time until the present, and whatever the peak was, offer 20% more than that plus moving expenses... effectively 175% of "fair" value + maybe $20K.
Most reasonable: burn down the data center and build low cost housing on the ashes.
Why be "reasonable" with unreasonable people?
Being "reasonable" with unreasonable people is unreasonable. Be reasonable.
Plus .5% of all future profits.
Always get a part of the gross, there's no net!
So... An extra $0?
Yeah, 0.5% was what I was offered as Director of 50% of new startups... 0.005% is more realistic - and could range from 0 to outrageous.