Pennsylvania’s data center tax break losses are growing faster than state officials once projected, mirroring trends Good Jobs First has documented in Georgia, Texas, Virginia, Ohio, and other states.

Northern Public Radio writes about the presence of data centers that are providing new property tax dollars for some schools districts in northern Illinois. But that individual benefit doesn’t include ...

Editor’s note: This piece was updated to clarify that tax increment financing districts “freeze” the tax base at a property’s current value and clarifies fixed assessment rates in Montana and. It also ...

A new Government Accountability Office report confirms a defining feature of the low-wage economy: Millions of people work—many full time and for some of the nation’s largest corporations—yet still ...

Earlier this month, former Southern Water bosses were charged with conspiracy to defraud for falsifying test results to avoid regulatory penalties. Environmental campaigners, who have worked together ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new analysis from Good Jobs First finds that state and local governments are losing tax revenue to data center subsidies at an unprecedented rate, with costs rising sharply in ...

The Indiana State Capitol in Indianapolis. Source: Leonid Andronov via Canva Editor’s note: This post has been corrected to reflect Indiana taxpayers lost $655 million between 2019-2025, and Amazon ...

The companies behind America’s AI data center boom are asking community leaders for land, electricity, water, transmission upgrades, tax breaks, and fast-track approvals. Trust us, they say, your ...

Data center tax abatements are getting very expensive, very fast. That’s why we dubbed them “Cloudy with A Loss of Spending Control” a year ago. States enacted exemptions for servers, chips, power, ...

Washington, DC — Virginia’s sales and use tax exemption for data centers cost the Commonwealth about $1.02 billion in fiscal year 2024, including an estimated $267 million that otherwise would have ...

Texas is racing to become the world’s largest data center market. But as lawmakers promote the state as the place to build AI and cloud infrastructure, they are also confronting a hard reality: the ...

Good Jobs First sent the following letter to elected leaders and residents of Independence, Missouri, where officials are debating whether to grant Nebius, a Netherlands-based artificial intelligence ...