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Tension: Virginia's legislature spent months fighting over whether to keep a data center sales tax exemption that saves the industry an estimated $1.9 billion a year, and ended the standoff by keeping the exemption and…
Tension: Marketers who spent years learning how to argue a flagged account back from the edge, explaining context to a human reviewer, are about to f…
Tension: Monterey Park just became the first city in the country to permanently ban data centers by popular vote, with more than 86 percent of reside…
Tension: In the two weeks before Arizona's data center tax moratorium took effect, developers filed nearly as many exemption applications as the stat…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Seventy percent. That's the share of AI shoppers who, according t…
Tension: A policy backlash is visibly accelerating in specific states while the underlying incentive structure remains intact almost everywhere else…
Tension: States sell data center tax exemptions as broad-based economic development, but the actual distribution of the benefit is concentrated in a…
Tension: The Virginia data center tax exemption was projected to cost $1.5 million a year in 2008 and cost $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025, according to…
Tension: Boards demand proof of AI marketing ROI at exactly the moment AI-automated media has made attribution its hardest to defend. Noise: This has…
Tension: Ohio became a leading AI infrastructure destination on a tax break it suspended when the bill arrived: $1.6 billion instead of the projected…
