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PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) — Hyper Scale data center tax breaks go down to defeat in their first big test in the South Dakota legislature. The House State Affairs committee debated lengthy tax breaks being considered to attract large tech companies to build the multi-billion dollar facilities in the state. House Speaker Jon Hansen says that favors those companies over South Dakota citizens.
Representative Greg Jamison of Sioux Falls offered a compromise to reduce the length of the tax breaks for the centers. He believes it’s important for the state to get going on encouraging data center development. He said it was as though “we have placed ‘Closed for Business’ signs at all our borders. The committee killed the bill on a 9-3 vote.
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