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Virginia Democrats may shut down their own government.<\/p>\n

Virginia faces a government shutdown if the Democrat-controlled General Assembly fails to pass a budget by June 30, the Virginia Mercury reported. Data center policies may be the dividing line.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think there is a component of Democrats that see data centers as a lifeline to the energy industry and they hate that,\u201d Power The Future Executive Director Daniel Turner told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n

Virginia\u2019s House of Delegates released a budget proposal that would study data centers\u2019 long-term effects on the commonwealth while preserving their exemption from the 5.3% sales tax, the Mercury reported.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Friday\u2019s] proposal creates a clear roadmap for evaluating the impact of the data center industry in Virginia and for reassessing the state\u2019s incentives into the future, with a focus on fairness to ratepayers and the needs of local communities,\u201d Democratic Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger said. (RELATED: Virginia Supreme Court Turns Democrat\u2019s Victory Lap Into Walk Of Shame<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

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ASHBURN, VIRGINIA \u2013 JULY 17: In an aerial view, the IAD71 Amazon Web Services data center is shown on July 17, 2024 in Ashburn, Virginia. Northern Virginia is the largest data center market in the world, according to a report this year cited in published accounts, but is facing headwinds from availability of land and electric power. (Photo by Nathan Howard\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Spanberger warned in a Thursday interview with the Mercury that abruptly axing the tax credits could harm Virginia\u2019s pro-business reputation, communities dependent on data center revenue, and trigger lawsuits.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at Mecklenburg, where they\u2019ve built multiple public schools fully with data center funding,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you have localities with nearly half their local revenues coming in from data centers, there\u2019s some localities that are saying, wait, why are you going to pull up the ladder behind you?\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic Virginia Senate Finance and Appropriations Chair Louise Lucas wants to eliminate the exemption before the budget passes amid concerns over rising utility costs and the environment, according to The Mercury. The embattled state senator also launched a listening tour to determine how data centers are affecting the commonwealth\u2019s communities.<\/p>\n

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The offices of Spanberger and Lucas did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

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\u201c[Senate Majority Leader Luis Lucas] will tell you that data centers are taking the money and they\u2019re taking it from her district, which is a predominantly black district in Virginia,\u201d Turner said. \u201cThat\u2019s why she hates data centers. If other people are profiting and we are not, it\u2019s because they\u2019re taking money from us. So, it\u2019s that just zero-sum game of Marxist economics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Utility cost concerns contributed to bipartisan angst against data centers throughout the budget process, The Daily Signal reported Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am somebody who thinks we need to get rid of the data center tax break, because I don\u2019t think we need to be giving $2 billion a year to huge AI big tech firms,\u201d Republican State Sen. Glen Sturtevant told The Daily Signal. \u201cIt\u2019s ultimately Virginians who pay for that in higher electric bills.\u201d\u00a0(RELATED: Tech Giant To Train American Workers For Data Center Jobs)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Virginia hosts the most data centers in the world, accounting for over 100 \u201chyperscale\u201d facilities, according to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership. These facilities total over 13.5 million square feet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tech industry has recognized that data centers are not going to be powered by wind and solar. They\u2019re not even trying to pretend they\u2019re wind and solar,\u201d Turner said.\u00a0\u201cThese are the same companies who for years have told people that they are all in on the climate agenda, they\u2019re all in on emission reduction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been playing this game of anti-fossil fuels for decades, and now all of a sudden, there\u2019s too much on the line in terms of their corporate interests. It\u2019s not some fake ESG score to appease the United Nations. It\u2019s not philanthropy. It\u2019s corporate interests,\u201d Turner said after pointing out that Google\u2019s website states it\u2019s been carbon neutral since 2007. \u201cI think a lot of Democrats see this and they hate it. They\u2019re all in on the green agenda and to see the resurrection or the dependency or the recognition that fossil fuels are the reliable, the cheap, the affordable, the abundant, the efficient form of energy production drives them up a wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there is, quite frankly, enough evidence or any evidence that data centers are driving up utility prices,\u201d Turner said when asked how data centers affect Virginians\u2019 finances and local economies. \u201cI think what\u2019s driving up utility prices was the four years of the Biden EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] shutting fossil fuel plants and promising we will one day build these things. Well, none of those things were built. We just took offline reliable, affordable, fossil fuel production.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think data centers are now the convenient scapegoat,\u201d Turner said.<\/p>\n

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