Data Center Subsidies Come Under Scrutiny as States Reassess Benefits
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Across at least 28 of 38 states that offered incentives to data centers, lawmakers are moving to end or shrink those subsidies amid rising electricity costs, budget pressures, and doubts about the local benefits, with some proposing guardrails tied to clean energy or local jobs while others push to expand incentives to stay competitive, reflecting a broad, partisan and regional rethinking of the data-center boom.
Topics:nation#data-centers#energy-policy#infrastructure-investment#policy#state-legislation#tax-incentives
- Data centers used to be a prize. States are having second thoughts. Politico
- ‘The Most Bipartisan Issue Since Beer’: Opposition to Data Centers The New York Times
- The Small Midwest Community Leading America’s Crusade Against Data Centers WSJ
- Democratic Governance of AI Is the Real Solution Jacobin
- The data center rebellion is only the beginning bloodinthemachine.com
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