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Data-center tax-break proposal falters as labor and environmental concerns sway votes
Summary
Leaders said a proposed data-center tax-break bill did not have sufficient votes and that building-trades and utility-consumption concerns played a decisive role; testimony from large tech firms was present but described as not extraordinary in the transcript.
Senate Majority Leader Jamie Peterson said a proposed data-center tax-break bill "didn't have enough votes" to advance through the legislature this session, and he pointed to concerns raised by building trades and utility impacts as central to members’ hesitancy.
Peterson said members and stakeholders spent the final day talking through the measure. "We did not think after Tuesday night that we would have the time to talk through that bill with people, and we did," he said, describing…
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