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Under the US$ 1.6 billion moratorium on data centre tax subsidies in Ohio, USA
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According to information from IT House on 2 June, TechRadar today reported that the Governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, announced a moratorium on data centre subsidies to enable the legislature to reassess the impact of the plan on finance, energy infrastructure and communities.
It was reported that the adjustment would apply only to new applications and that the approved tax subsidies would not be affected. Currently, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta. The technology giants have deployed cloud computing operations and built data centres in Ohio.
Ohio originally anticipated that the subsidy scheme would cost $136 million in 2025 (IT House Note: the current exchange rate is about 922 million yuan) and $142 million in 2026 (the current exchange rate is about 963 million yuan). However, the actual figures are well ahead of expectations.
Data show that Ohio lost $554 million in tax revenue due to subsidy losses in 2024 (the current exchange rate is approximately RMB 3,757 million), while in 2025 it lost nearly $1.6 billion (the current exchange rate is about RMB 1,849 million).
At the same time, the high consumption of resources in the data centre has raised concerns among the local population. Community concerns in Ohio include, inter alia, increased demand for electricity, increased water use, land use and other infrastructural pressures.
Despite the tax losses, the Ohio Governor acknowledged that the data centre project had played a positive role in local employment and investment. In 2025 alone, the data centre project, which benefited from the State’s tax preference policy, generated a capital investment of $27.2 billion (at an exchange rate of approximately $18.444 billion), which became an important source of funding for Ohio’s economic development.
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