Amrith Ramkumar
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 9 Sep
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Mm-hmm.
Rolling back these tax exemptions is actually one of the few concrete things politicians can do to win brownie points with their constituents.
Mm-hmm.
Rolling back these tax exemptions is actually one of the few concrete things politicians can do to win brownie points with their constituents while also still leaving the door open for future development.
A lot of these moves are framed as pauses, things that give these politicians leeway in the future if public sentiment improves toward data centers.
An interesting one to look at is Ohio, where the governor essentially had to freeze new approved.
approvals for tax exemptions after a local media outlet reported that it was over one point five billion dollars in exemptions for tech giants last year.
And that gap really shows how badly the states miscalculated because they put these policies in place a decade ago when data centers were powering us watching Netflix or doing some pretty boring stuff.
They were not designed for this environment where you have hundreds of billions of dollars in spending on data centers for AI, and that's why the value has really exploded.
You also have people in Texas talking about potentially getting rid of these tax exemptions.
And New Jersey just two years ago voted to have a five hundred million dollar tax exemption for data centers, and already they've clawed back half of that.
Like it can be a lot of money.
And it can change the economics of doing projects in a state.
The tech executives and industry groups say, we'll just leave and go to another state.
And there are states that are still very, very
very welcoming to these facilities despite all the rhetoric uh and all the local backlash places like Indiana, West Virginia, Wyoming.
Thanks for having me.
We're at the Carolina Inn, which is a historic hotel on UNC Travel Hall's campus.
It's officials from these countries and their aides.
We've definitely seen Jetson Huang, Sam Altman, a lot of people from the government.
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