Der Gouverneur von Illinois, JB Pritzker, will Steuererleichterungen für Rechenzentren aussetzen
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-election/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-suspend-tax-breaks-offered-data-centers-rcna348537
Der Gouverneur von Illinois, JB Pritzker, will Steuererleichterungen für Rechenzentren aussetzen
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-election/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-suspend-tax-breaks-offered-data-centers-rcna348537
37 Kommentare
Good. Businesses moving into an area normally get tax breaks as a representation of the fact they will be employing local people. But data centers employ nearly no-one after construction, so taxes paid are how they contribute to their host communities.
Please explain how those tax breaks were given in the first place?
Good! They’re cutting jobs, fucking up environment, raising energy costs, raising memory costs, and fueling the current administration.
Great. Data centers do not need or deserve tax incentives and, more often than not, even the construction crews that build them are brought in from outside of the state. After the things open, it’s a very small team that admins them and most of the time, apart from senior engineers, they’re temps.
“Suspend” being the key word. You know until we’ve been beaten into the ground with AI bull 💩and finally give in that it’s inevitable because we don’t live in a democracy anymore.
If they want a better reputation, they should never get a tax incentive. In fact, can contribute to a local sovereign fund to send small amount to local citizens.
Then also pay their fair share of any energy and electrical use and ensuring no impact to residential rates as a result. For instance, if capacity is constrained and even if data center paid normal rate but utility now raises rate to reduce residential capacity that should not be allowed. The answer would be to increase capacity and data center should pay for that infrastructure as well.
The spirit of this is that the data centers fully pay for what they need without harming residential. If they did that, the backlash would be way less.
Billionaire fighting greed, it’s nice to see it happening sometimes
Is claw back one word or two?
JB is 100% right!
Why are the taxpayers subsidising multi-billionaires and mega corporations?
If the want to build datacenters, they should pay for them; the infrastructure to support them i.e. power and water; any\all the environmental damage; and the taxes that come with them.
No State\City\County should be giving them tax breaks – they barely pay any taxes as it is; and some pay NOTHING at all at the Federal level.
THEY HAVE THE MONEY.
(same thing goes for NFL\NBA franchises\stadia)
Embarrassing that they happened to begin with.
Maybe if we stopped giving billionaires tax breaks some of us could afford to live in this shithole
Why would anyone give these assholes tax breaks? So they can build some giant prefab building that blows up the price of water and power for the entire county and makes living near it unbearable? In exchange for some construction jobs that last three months and ten permanent jobs? Where is the benefit? Tax them double and charge them exponentially more for power and water.
They should be hefty tax for data centers because they are ruining our environment!
Good for him. What does Texas governor Abbot do? He gives them 80% property tax break while us poor residents pay outrageous taxes and seniors lose their homes. It’s disgusting
id love to know why its always the billion dollar companies getting tax breaks when the average American gets nothing. I kinda think we need the tax break more than they do.
It’s great news
I keep noticing JB Pritzker doing things that make sense to me.
Is he actually a good one? Or is this only one aspect of him? Not that familiar with him.
Pritzker’s stance on AI is just the beginning it’s a sign that Schumer, Jeffries and corporate Democrats better start preparing for a change candidate for president. Congressman Ro Khanna is right, change, big change is coming to America and the old guard isn’t it.
Data centres are such an odd thing to me. I really get a lot of value from using AI, but I absolutely wouldn’t want a data centre near me.
As everyone says, it seems completely aimed at company profits with no positive benefits to the communities they’re in (with lots of harm).
I need him to make the Bears stay in Illinois.
That’s a start. Let’s do that in every state. Then mandate they each draw their own power and pay for it themselves.
Now if we can retroactively roll back Reagan „error“ tax breaks for the greedy Epstein class.
Data centers bring nothing to a state but higher utility bills and environmental damage.
I hope Pritzker runs 2028
This is the way. The only way.
Down with Data Centers!
No tax break. They pay extra tax on the land, and utilities that they pay to install. No taxpayer money for AI period. Pay a lot more if they want to use the local water source.
Edit: typos.
Thank you Governor Pritzker.
Just a pleb with my 2 cents. Id rather they pair their fair share of taxes and have union building the sites, but here in Washington I know the local unions worked together to help alleviate the taxes as long as the construction of the data centers were union or at least Davis bacon wages. So while they did get a tax break, it has given a steady 10+ years of decently paid construction work. One of the sites even got busted for not probably paying their guys the prevailing wages and got sued to backpay. Again rather they pay their fair share and go union, but i can see where some bargains are made.
How about tax breaks no longer go to any corporations or companies financially connected to ANY billionaires. They increase their wealth at our cost, while hanging themselves on a cross pretending its for our good.
Virginia needs to do this as well.
Why was this even a thing to begin with? They should be paying taxes like everyone else.
Shouldn’t have been a thing to begin with.
State legislators sure love to fuck over the American people for pocket change. The fact that they ever offered tax breaks to these leeches in the first place is ridiculous.
We used to give tax breaks to companies when they built a facility because there would be jobs, there are no volume of jobs with a data center. Maybe one or two guys in a huge data center, that’s it. Most are completely dark.
Wait ai is replacing workforce how’s it eligible for tax breaks in the first place
He gets it. At least on this point. Easy points