Energy and climateFinding

Alabama should stop giving tax abatements to new data centers.

Alabama law lets state and local officials grant data centers long-term abatements of property and sales taxes to attract investment. Ending them would require new data centers to pay those taxes in full.

Doug Jones

Democratic
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