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 […]
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
DeWine pauses data center tax breaks as legislature reviews . . . DeWine hits pause on new data center tax breaks as legislature launches review DeWine paused new tax exemptions after Signal Ohio revealed the state underestimated costs by over $1 billion, as a bipartisan committee launches its review