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Track T2-2: Real Assets, Insurance, and Real Estate
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Subsidizing the Cloud: U.S. State Incentives to Data Centers 1University of Houston; 2University of Notre Dame Over the past two decades, many U.S. states have introduced tax incentives to at- tract investment in data centers. We provide causal evidence that incentives double data center construction at the state-level. However, these effects are present only for large, high-power facilities used for cloud computing and, more recently, LLMs. Smaller data centers are mostly unaffected. The incentives primarily reduce operating costs and capital expenditures, and lead to annual savings in the millions of dollars for large facilities. Despite these substantial long-term subsidies, we find no clear evidence that data centers stimulate local growth in tech employment.
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