That 1% incentive to encourage data center approvals? Final deal watered it down

By: Tom Davies

Outlets: Indiana Capital Chronicle

Published: March 26, 2026

Words: 1,531

Last Updated: 4 months, 1 week ago

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What Republican lawmakers pitched as a potentially multi-million dollar incentive for Indiana cities and counties to approve future data center projects was sliced to a small fraction of that amount in the final days of the legislative session.

Private meetings between legislators and lobbyists for data center companies resulted in rewritten incentive provisions inserted in the final bill version which cut potential payments based on electricity usage to at most about 1/14th of the level …

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