The cloud company announced its $33 billion investment for Project Red Clay on Wednesday.

A $1.1 billion tax abatement for a data center in Lowndes County, Alabama, has residents asking hard questions. The same questions are coming up in Minnesota, where data center costs can show up in property taxes and electric bills. Alabama reporting by Word In Black’s Joseph Williams, with Minnesota reporting by MSR. The post $1.1B data center tax break near civil rights trail appeared first on Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.

“Do trillion-dollar corporations building multi-billion-dollar facilities really need a few million from small local governments in order to be profitable?”

Lowndes County's approval of a massive data center faces legal scrutiny with a lawsuit claiming it breached Alabama's Open Meetings Act.

This marks the seventh known lawsuit tackling massive data centers and their approval from local governments filed in Alabama in the last 18 months.

The Alabama legislator and candidate for lieutenant governor condemned the county for the $1.1 billion tax abatement deal.

Cloverleaf Infrastructure plans to start building Project Red Clay, which has been highly protested by local residents, at the start of 2027.