This sales tax is something almost all states (42) already exempt data centers from, because they think it's so much it'd be onerous. Loudoun County, which gets $1.3 billion in tax revenue from data centers annually, doesn't charge a sales tax. It's technically true that this is "losing the state that much money every year" but only in worlds where the big additional tax doesn't scare any data centers away from the state.

These are the numbers we have for how much a $1 billion data center would be taxed in different states each year. The yellow is this sales tax. Notice that in most places data centers aren't charged it but are still taxed a lot.

@AndyMasley I wonder if you would see something interesting if you changed the graph to % of county income instead of dollars since each place probably has a different cost of living.

@AndyMasley Is CA like that because of their funky property tax system?

👀 IL 🤔

@AndyMasley Well, I guess the graph is only a hypothetical data center, so that wouldn't work.