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Corporate subsidy watchdog since 1998; Creator of Subsidy Tracker, Violation Trackerss, Tax Break Tracker. UK work: @VT__UK More: https://t.co/dggNbo8wIj

Washington, DC Katılım Mart 2009
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Good Jobs First@GoodJobsFirst·
NEW: At least 10 states lose over $100 million per year in tax revenue to data centers. The loss of revenue is surely worse than we can yet document — of the 32 states with data center tax incentives, 12 fail to disclose even *aggregate* revenue losses. 👇🏾 goodjobsfirst.org/runaway-data-c…
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Reinvent Albany
Reinvent Albany@ReinventAlbany·
So thankful to have @MelindaJPerson at the IDA roundtable event yesterday, along with @LeroyComrie and @SolagesNY. It's clear that there needs to be real accountability for IDAs
Melinda Person 🍎✌🌈@MelindaJPerson

Today I opened a panel on IDAs — because public dollars should serve the public good. Economic development and good jobs matter. But when tax breaks happen without transparency or school voices at the table, students and communities pay the price. New York can grow its economy without shortchanging public schools. @nysut

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molly taft
molly taft@mollytaft·
btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now
molly taft@mollytaft

NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeks, according to internal emails between the company and regulators

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Good Jobs First@GoodJobsFirst·
Microsoft claims it wants to *add* to the tax base in communities where it seeks to puts data centers but then seeks massive tax breaks in communities where it seeks to puts data centers. motherjones.com/politics/2026/…
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J.C. Bradbury
J.C. Bradbury@jc_bradbury·
As I write my book: (final proofs just returned, still on track for July publication).
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The Conversation U.S.
The Conversation U.S.@ConversationUS·
Data centers coming to Pennsylvania alone could use enough electricity to power 11 million homes. That’s almost double the number of households across the state!
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ITEP
ITEP@iteptweets·
Tax breaks for data centers are becoming outrageously costly. 14 states and scores of localities across the U.S are losing even more by failing to be transparent about these costs.
Good Jobs First@GoodJobsFirst

🚨NEW ANALYSIS🚨 14 states and scores of localities fail to disclose how much revenue they lose to data center tax breaks. Yet such losses are known to be soaring in states that do disclose, with three states already losing $1 billion or more per year. 🧵 goodjobsfirst.org/data-center-ta…

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Eugenio Tisselli
Eugenio Tisselli@motorhueso·
"Officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account" politico.com/news/2026/05/0…
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molly taft
molly taft@mollytaft·
NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math. less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)
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Good Jobs First@GoodJobsFirst·
Our Violation Tracker update is live 🚀 New cases include: 🟥Albertsons to pay >$700m for its alleged role in the opioid crisis 🟥Wells Fargo settled two class actions lawsuits for $117m for fraudulent marketing and failing to meet retirement obligations violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/pages/data-vis…
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Athena Coalition
Athena Coalition@athenaforall·
What does it mean for Amazon to move into the shipping industry? It can afford to undercut FedEx and USPS for a little while, but once it gets a monopoly, it will use its power to raise prices knowing folks have nowhere else to go. theverge.com/tech/923013/am…
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Bloomberg
Bloomberg@business·
Maryland homeowners will pay an extra $1.6 billion on their electric bills over the next decade to subsidize grid costs to feed data centers, according to a state agency bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Good Jobs First@GoodJobsFirst·
Like warehouses when Amazon moved to rapid delivery, data centers are coming many places fast and that gives public officials far more bargaining power than developers make them believe. Localities should start acting like it. Our latest, in @NextCityOrg nextcity.org/urbanist-news/…
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Good Jobs First@GoodJobsFirst·
In addition to rising energy costs, residents are also giving huge companies money via massive tax breaks. States should end, or at a minimum pause, data center tax break programs to understand the full impact to budgets, energy bills, and our health. goodjobsfirst.org/data-center-ta…
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CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil@CBSEveningNews

New data centers are popping up across the country, driving up utility bills in at least 13 states. According to a new analysis, Americans who live near the centers are paying as much as 267% more a month for energy than five years ago.

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Ohio River Valley Institute
Ohio River Valley Institute@O_R_V_I·
West Virginia’s largest data center campus proposals would consume 123 million MWh of electricity each year, more than 3.7 times as much as the entire state of West Virginia. ow.ly/tSBE50YT1Hb
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Public News Service
Public News Service@PNS_News·
A new report says Midwest states are doing a poor job of disclosing the amount of money that #DataCenters are saving from tax breaks. Kasia Tarczynska with @GoodJobsFirst says transparency can help people understand how these projects affect their towns. pnsne.ws/4cHb7JR
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Reinvent Albany
Reinvent Albany@ReinventAlbany·
"Reinvent Albany has called out the deal as 'the largest government subsidy ever recorded within the United States,' prompting questions about how much public money goes to projects that don’t create meaningful jobs for communities." fastcompany.com/91532920/jpmor…
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