Ohioans are figuring out that huge, tax-subsidized data centers popping up in pastures like toadstools after a summer shower benefit Silicon Valley and Wall Street, not working Ohioans.
That, at a time when Ohio median household income ($80,520 in 2024) lags the national median ($83,720), according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, while gasoline and grocery prices skyrocket.
Ohio’s data-center tax break appears to have originated as a 2011 Senate amendment to Ohio’s 2011-13 state budget, passed in mid-2011 by a party-line vote – Republicans “yes,” Democrats, “no” – and signed by Republican then-Gov. John R. Kasich…