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VA Study Calls for Tighter Regulation of Data Center Water Use Virginia, a leading data center market , released a long-delayed report examining the industry’s possible impact on the groundwater...
‘No Robo Bosses Act’ on Move in CA A fast-moving bill in California ( SB 947 ) would require human oversight when employers use artificial intelligence in certain employment decisions. Introduced...
Last year, Colorado became the first state to use a prescription drug affordability board to set a binding payment limit for a specific drug. Now a federal judge has temporarily blocked that limit, raising...
FDA Advisory Panel Supports Widening Access to Several Peptides Last week an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration voted in favor of allowing compounding pharmacies to produce six peptides...
OH EPA Scraps Proposed Data Center Water Discharge General Permit The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency announced in a community notice last week that after “carefully reviewing the significant...
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Virginia has become the latest state to pass legislation changing its stance on data center tax incentives in the face of growing opposition to the facilities over their potential impact on energy costs and availability. Last week lawmakers there approved a budget bill (HB 30) that provides for a data-center electricity consumption tax, while also keeping in place a sales and use tax exemption for such facilities that costs the state nearly $2 billion a year.
Lawmakers in at least 11 states, including Michigan (HB 5396), New Jersey (AB 5165/SB 4390), North Carolina (HB 1213) and Pennsylvania (HB 2650), have introduced legislation this year to limit or eliminate tax incentives for data centers, while Alabama (HB 399) and Washington (SB 6231) have enacted bills scaling back such incentives. (PLURIBUS NEWS)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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