The exemption Virginia can’t price and won’t stop

By: Tommy Turner

Outlets: Virginia Mercury

Published: June 11, 2026

Words: 856

Last Updated: 20 hours, 13 minutes ago

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Virginia gave data centers a $928 million tax break in a single fiscal year, 2023, and the General Assembly cannot pass a budget because it can no longer agree on whether to keep doing it. That is the fight underneath the standoff in Richmond, with state spending set to expire June 30 and the conferees who should be writing a deal gone home without one.

The state’s own auditors laid out the stakes …

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