Big Tech has received billions in subsidies and tax breaks for AI data centers – while at the same time banking record profits.
We need to Make Big Tech Pay for data centers that are driving up our energy bills and damaging our environment – all while collecting massive taxpayer handouts. They need to foot the bill, not us.
Big Tech companies are building massive AI data centers across the country that consume enormous amounts of electricity. The result? Your bills are skyrocketing while they pocket taxpayer subsidies.
Big Tech has received billions in subsidies and tax breaks for AI data centers – while at the same time banking record profits.
Big Tech promises economic development, but data centers create few permanent local jobs while raising costs for existing small businesses.
"Tech companies are investing hundreds of billions of dollars in data centers across the country. But despite the record-setting price tags, the centers create few jobs."— NPR's All Things Considered
Support for data centers has cratered over the past year across the board and among voters of all political persuasions.
Stop the false choice between community investment and giving trillion-dollar companies blank checks. Force tech giants to pay for their data centers, instead of hardworking Americans.
Pass real state-level ratepayer protections into law and end the billions in annual state and local tax breaks for data center construction. That's money that should fund schools, healthcare, and strategic, sustainable long-term economic development.
Support legislation like H.R. 7066, the SHIELD Act, which would require data centers and other massive energy users to pay for their own grid infrastructure instead of passing those costs to families and small businesses.
Tell your lawmakers: force Big Tech – not taxpayers – to pay for the true cost of data centers.
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