In July of last year, community leaders in rural Richland Parish, Louisiana — population 20,043 — approved financing terms for a new project tied to billions of dollars in tax breaks.A Delaware company called Laidley LLC wanted to build “a multi-billion-dollar datacenter campus in the Parish resulting in several hundred new good paying jobs,” according to the text of the resolution, published later in the local newspaper. At a special meeting, in the middle of the day on a Thursday, the commissi...