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Clouded Judgment: Data Center Subsidies Don’t Add Up – Good Jobs First
Good Jobs First analyzes independent state evaluations from Virginia, Georgia, and Washington showing that data center tax incentive programs result in net revenue losses for state and local governments. Data […]
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Cloudy With a Loss of Spending Control: How Data Centers Are Endangering State Budgets
This report by Good Jobs First reveals that at least 10 U.S. states lose over $100 million per year in tax revenue to data center sales and use tax exemptions, […]
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Energy Tax Benefits for Data Centers: In Brief
This Congressional Research Service brief examines how data center owners may benefit from federal tax credits and deductions aimed at increasing clean electricity supply or improving energy efficiency, including the […]
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Data Centers Have a PFAS Problem
In Virginia's Loudoun County, data centers use PFAS — forever chemicals — in cooling systems. Refrigerant gases escape with global warming potential thousands of times higher than CO2, and immersion […]
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Mapped: The Massive Network Powering U.S. Data Centers
Loudoun County, Virginia holds nearly 6 GW of operating and under-construction data center capacity — more than any other U.S. county — with 6,300 MW more planned. An NREL map […]
Exposing AI Data Center Threats and Harms