Big Tax Loophole for OH Gas-Fired Power Plants Owned by Data Centers

Data centers are all the rage these days. It seems like a new data center is announced weekly somewhere in the Eastern U.S. Ohio has its fair share of them coming to the Buckeye State (see our Ohio data center stories here). Back in 2013, the state passed a law incentivizing companies to build data centers in the state. Now, the state is seeing a flood of new data centers. Data centers need a lot of power, and they need it badly. So, many of the data centers are building captive gas-fired power plants to provide electricity. Gas-fired power plants don't get big tax breaks like data centers do, but in this case, the gas-fired plants are considered part of the data center, ergo, they qualify for the tax break. Ooops.

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