Lawmakers Aim to End Tax Breaks for Data Centers

Ohio House waits on data center study vote, hints at veto override on sales tax exemption

Construction of a data center. (File photo from Getty Images.) After rapidly advancing a bill to study data centers through committee, Ohio House lawmakers took a beat Wednesday, and held off on putting the measure to a floor vote. But that pause, Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman said, wasn’t a matter of cold feet. “I like the data center commission,” he said before the House session. “It’s not on the agenda for today, but I think it will be bef…

Lawmakers aim to end tax breaks for data centers

State lawmakers push to override Governor’s veto and end tax breaks for data centers.

Impacts to Loudoun’s Economy Uncertain as General Assembly Weighs Data Center Tax Changes

Proposed changes to tax incentives offered by the General Assembly to the data center industry are raising concerns among Loudoun’s elected officials as the impacts on the world’s largest concentration of data centers are unknown.

Ohio GOP moves to override DeWine veto on data center tax break

State House Republicans are preparing for a vote later this month to once again ax Ohio’s longstanding tax break for data centers after Gov. Mike DeWine preserved it last summer. House Speaker Matt Huffman said Wednesday that he’s “whipping votes” – legislative lingo for formally tallying support and persuading any holdouts – to override DeWine’s veto of a law the legislature passed last June that would have ended the tax break. “We’re going to …