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A Michigan House committee has cleared a series of Senate bills that would offer tax breaks to a Nevada-based company to open a data center in West Michigan.
The measures would also extend the same incentives to data centers already in the state.
However a sought after Personal Property Tax exemption would have to be approved by local governments.
Yan Ness, with the Michigan Data Center Alliance, says that will be a long shot because not many governments are willing to part with tax dollars.
State Representative Jeff Farrington, chairman of the House Tax Policy Committee, says it’s on data centers to make their case.
He says it’s only fair for a local government to decide if they want to get less tax revenue.
Farrington says the legislation could be changed before it’s voted on in the House, which could happen Thursday.
