{"id":258056,"date":"2026-05-28T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/ohio-suspends-data-center-tax-break-as-tech-firms-face-pressure-to-pay-the-cost-to-power-ai-wral-com\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:25:21","slug":"ohio-suspends-data-center-tax-break-as-tech-firms-face-pressure-to-pay-the-cost-to-power-ai-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/ohio-suspends-data-center-tax-break-as-tech-firms-face-pressure-to-pay-the-cost-to-power-ai-wral-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio suspends data center tax break as tech firms face pressure to pay the cost to power AI :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/4d565-ohio-suspends-data-center-tax-break-as-tech-firms-face-pressure-to-pay-the-cost-to-power-ai\/\">Ohio suspends data center tax break as tech firms face pressure to pay the cost to power AI :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/4d565-ohio-suspends-data-center-tax-break-as-tech-firms-face-pressure-to-pay-the-cost-to-power-ai\/\">https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/4d565-ohio-suspends-data-center-tax-break-as-tech-firms-face-pressure-to-pay-the-cost-to-power-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 15:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wral.com\">www.wral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ohio, one of the nation\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The move Wednesday by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine comes as tax breaks for energy-hungry AI data centers are increasingly playing a role in state budgets and the industry is under pressure to pay the full costs of the vast network of its computing warehouses needed to power AI.<\/p>\n<p>The size of Ohio&#8217;s tax break skyrocketed, dwarfing previous projections, as opposition to data centers is sweeping through cities, suburbs and towns there and prompting lawmakers to form a committee to study the impact.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, residents are trying to bypass the GOP-controlled Legislature and get a referendum on November&#8217;s midterm election ballot that&#8217;s designed to permanently ban hyperscale data centers, likely the strictest such statewide ban under consideration in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>DeWine&#8217;s office cited the rising utilization of the tax break and the state Legislature&#8217;s new research undertaking to declare a \u201cpause\u201d in granting it to new applicants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The governor felt it was the right time to let the citizens know, let businesses know that we&#8217;re going to pause on new offers of this tax incentive while that process plays out,&#8221; DeWine&#8217;s spokesperson, Dan Tierney, said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> DeWine has stressed that he supports data centers \u2014 calling them a critical component in today\u2019s economy \u2014 and that the roughly $37 billion in data center-related investments in 2024 and 2025 in the state has been&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/4d565-ohio-suspends-data-center-tax-break-as-tech-firms-face-pressure-to-pay-the-cost-to-power-ai\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio suspends data center tax break as tech firms face pressure to pay the cost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.wral.com\/c4226ae9-134d-56e9-9f5d-5260a70f2015?w=1200&h=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258058,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258056\/revisions\/258058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}