It is the state's choice to forego collecting one particular type of tax, while those same data centers pay local sales tax and local property tax. And so that It equates to billions upon billions of dollars that flow to local communities. And so it becomes a question of are we going to summarily break contracts which does open the state to legal exposure, or are we going to make a plan … (03:11–03:16)
CLAIM
Asserts that tax payments from data centers result in billions of dollars for local communities.
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