Repealing Tax Incentives, Banning NDAs, and Myth-busting Economy & Jobs Claims

The hour long workshop will review the strongest possible local, state, and federal policy interventions to stop taxpayer subsidization of the data center buildout and combat corporate secrecy. Hosted by ainowinstitute.org

The session will include:

• Analysis from Kasia Tarczynska, Senior Research Analyst at Good Jobs First, on how data center siting decisions are made, how tax breaks and subsidies work, and how jobs and economic development claims fall far short in reality.
• Local, state, and federal policy interventions to repeal or limit corporate subsidies, ban NDAs, require public disclosure and transparency, and steps to take if you can’t fully ban tax breaks.
• An organizer and advocate panel with:
  • Matthew Rodriguez, Co-Founder of the Amanecer People’s Project and National Data Center Organizing Coordinator at Athena for All, will walk through El Paso organizing efforts to end tax breaks for data centers, and the fight against Meta’s $10 billion facility.
  • Bryce Gustafson, Program Organizer with Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana, will break down community tactics to combat corporate secrecy around data centers across the state, and the impacts of tax subsidies on everyday people.

Register here for this session and the rest of the series.