Energy and climateFinding
Illinois should suspend tax breaks it has already granted to data centers.
Illinois paused new data center tax incentives in 2026, but projects already approved keep their sales and use tax exemptions. Suspending existing breaks would end those exemptions for approved projects as well.
Darren Bailey
I think we need to have an immediate halt because ultimately, if we continue on this path that we're going on, energy prices are going to continue to skyrocket
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