On April 27, while Gov. Abigail Spanberger was in Roanoke signing twelve bipartisan workforce bills at her hundred-day mark, a group of Botetourt County residents drove over to confront her about the data center sales tax exemption.
Here’s what House lawmakers want to require of data centers to keep their sales tax break
The recently approved Google data center campus in Greenfield Industrial Park has become a flashpoint in their county. They wanted to know where the governor stood on the exemption that has made Virginia the so-called Data Center Capital of the World and is now the central holdup in the state budget…