Governor DeWine Announces Pause of Data Center Tax Exemption The Ohio Tax Credit Authority will stop accepting new data center tax exemption proposals after its currently scheduled meeting on Monday, where an existing data center tax exemption request will be considered This action only suspends the ability for data centers to request tax exemptions in Ohio; it is not a data center ban
Ohio suspends data center tax break as tech firms face pressure to pay . . . 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 […]
Gov. DeWine freezes controversial data center tax break, for now The 100% exemption from sales taxes on the materials contractors use to construct data centers has existed in Ohio’s Revised Code for years It’s drawn recent scrutiny over what it’s costing the state Newly released data, according to Signal Ohio, showed Ohio underestimated the 2025 cost of the tax break by more than $1 4 billion