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Illinois Data Center Investment Program

Illinois incentive granting state and local sales and use tax exemptions on operations-essential property plus a 20 percent construction wage credit, for up to 20 years in five-year renewals above a $250 million investment floor.

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Illinois more than quadrupled its data center tax exemptions in four years

Six exempt projects in 2020 became 27 by 2024 while the state's own agency stopped reporting an annual revenue-loss figure in FY2023, which is the one number a legislature would need to defend the program or repeal it.

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Illinois Data Center Investment Program — project — Clarity Today