Ohio hits pause on datacenter tax breaks draining its coffers
Buckeye State found it had inadvertently joined the billion dollar losers' club
The US state of Ohio has suspended tax breaks for datacenters, amid claims that the policy cost the state more than $1.5 billion in revenue during in 2025 alone.
Ohio's Republican Governor Mike DeWine declared a pause in the state's server farm subsidy, directing its Tax Credit Authority to stop considering new datacenter sales tax exemption requests while officials review the industry’s costs and impacts.
According to the Associated Press, the amount of money involved in Ohio’s tax break has ballooned, hugely exceeding earlier estimates, while opposition to the building of giant bit barns has also grown, as in other areas of the US that have become datacenter hotspots.
Nonprofit research org Good Jobs First puts the cost of the sales tax exemption to the state at more than $1.5 billion in 2025, about 11 times the...
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