Ohio Suspends Data Center Tax Break as Opposition Grows

Ohio Suspends Data Center Tax Break as Opposition Grows

The state of Ohio - one of America's hot regions for data center construction - "is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states," reports the Associated Press. The move "comes as tax breaks for energy-hungry AI data centers are increasingly playing a role in state budgets," the article points out. But they also note the expanding data center industry "is under pressure to pay the full costs" The size of Ohi…

Ohio suspends data center tax break as tech firms face pressure to pay the cost to power AI

Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert, File) Ohio, one of the nation’s data center destination hot spots, is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots. The move Wednesday by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine comes as tax breaks for energy-hungry AI data centers are increasingly playing a role in state budge…