States Use Tax Incentives to Lure In Data Centers

GreenBiz.com (May 5 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

1. In the drive to create new, highly paid jobs, a number of states are putting considerable effort and money into getting companies to site their data centers within their borders. The battle is perhaps best typified by Washington's new tax incentives for companies that build data centers in rural parts of the state. As Tax-News.com reports: Last year, the state rejected a proposed tax break, which prompted Microsoft to move its cloud computing platform Azure out of Washington State to another data center in the US. The news was distressing to the town of Quincy, where Yahoo, Microsoft and Intuit have built large server farms, drawn to Grant County's cheap and green hydropower. (Read Full Article)

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