Ohio Lawmakers Unveil Data Center Regulations

Ohio Lawmakers Introduce Sweeping New Data Center Legislation

Ohio lawmakers unveiled a sweeping data center bill Tuesday that reins in incentives and addresses several other public concerns. Drawing on testimony from the Select Committee on Data Centers, Ohio state Sen. Brian Chavez put together a laundry list of changes and then grafted them onto a measure originally meant to study the issue. It’s […] The post Ohio Lawmakers Introduce Sweeping New Data Center Legislation appeared first on Cleveland Scene.

Kasich deal gave 40-year data center tax break to Amazon, Google

Ohio officials have approved data center tax breaks for 18 companies, including 40-year deals for Meta, Google and Amazon.

Indiana providing $655 billion in tax breaks to data centers

Indiana is providing more than $655 million in sales and use tax exemptions for data centers across the state, according to the Indiana Economic Development Corporation's transparency portal.

Ohio lawmakers unveil data center regulations

Ohio lawmakers have unveiled legislation aiming to regulate the state's consistently growing data center development.Substitute House Bill 646, which is now nearly fifty pages, was created after just a few weeks of committee hearings."The Joint Data Center Study Committee has done its job," Senate Finance Chair Brian Chavez (R-Marietta), who is also the co-chair of the data center committee, said.Among many provisions, the legislation creates an…

Ohio’s biggest data centers secured decades of tax breaks

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio lawmakers are trying to reduce a controversial tax break for data centers, but contracts signed during the Kasich administration leave the state’s largest tech companies largely untouched.

IEDC fails to disclose 611 million dollar Amazon data center tax exemption

According to reports from the independent news site Good Jobs First, and WTHR Indianapolis, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation and the Indiana Comptroller’s office failed to disclose over six hundred million dollars in data center tax exemptions. The current amount of data center exemptions uncovered by journalists is $655 million, with Amazon taking up a large portion of that number at $611 million. Those numbers, however, only includ…