$50 Billion in Taxes Avoided by Tech Giants Driving the Data Center Boom
A new report reveals how the Trump administration is actively facilitating the data center contagion sweeping the nation.
Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta – three tech giants who are driving the AI and data center boom across the United States – avoided paying $49.7 billion in taxes last year, according to a new report. At the same time, last year, the companies committed to spending a combined $250 billion on AI and data centers.
The shocking figures come from a new report from the Climate and Community Institute (CCI) that details how the government is facilitating the mass proliferation of data centers across the country.
The report – titled, “AI First: How the Federal Government is Prioritizing AI Over People and Planet” – reveals how the AI boom and data center build-up is not an inevitable process, but rather the result of choices by a select group of people, with little regard for what the populace thinks.