{"id":259922,"date":"2026-05-30T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/ohio-suspends-data-center-tax-break-as-tech-firms-face-pressure-to-pay-the-cost-to-power-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:45:08","slug":"ohio-suspends-data-center-tax-break-as-tech-firms-face-pressure-to-pay-the-cost-to-power-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/ohio-suspends-data-center-tax-break-as-tech-firms-face-pressure-to-pay-the-cost-to-power-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio suspends data center tax break as tech firms face pressure to pay the cost to power AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio suspends data center tax break as tech firms face pressure to pay the cost to power AI<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/artificial-intelligence-data-centers-taxes-tech-ohio\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-30 19:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.cbsnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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

The size of Ohio’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

In the meantime, residents are trying to bypass the GOP-controlled Legislature and get a referendum on November’s midterm election ballot that’s designed to permanently ban hyperscale data centers, likely the strictest such statewide ban under consideration in the U.S.<\/p>\n

DeWine’s office cited the rising utilization of the tax break and the state Legislature’s new research undertaking to declare a “pause” in granting it to new applicants.<\/p>\n

“The governor felt it was the right time to let the citizens know, let businesses know that we’re going to pause on new offers of this tax incentive while that process plays out,” DeWine’s spokesperson, Dan Tierney, said Thursday.<\/p>\n

DeWine stressed that he supports data centers \u2014 calling them a critical component in today’s economy \u2014 and that the roughly $37 billion in data center-related investment in 2024 and 2025 in Ohio has been worthwhile. Meanwhile, business groups \u2014 including the state Chamber of Commerce \u2014 and labor unions warned that pausing the tax break put Ohio at risk of losing tech-sector investments to other states. <\/p>\n

The state, in 2024, had used previous history in projecting that the exemption would total $136 million in fiscal 2025 and $142 million in fiscal 2026. It was…<\/p>\n

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