A data center in Ashburn, Va.
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State lawmakers from both parties have increasingly targeted sales tax exemptions for data centers as the sprawling facilities have ruffled local residents, Daniel Moore reports.
- More than a dozen states are curtailing or rewriting laws that let data centers avoid sales taxes on materials, servers, and other equipment. Opponents of the exemptions point to millions of dollars in foregone revenue and indications that substantial data center construction activity would take place even without tax breaks.
- At a recent Coweta County, Ga. commissioners’ meeting, residents complained that a proposed $17 billion data center campus would increase noise, consume ...