A Colorado coalition of data center developers and operators is urging lawmakers to pass a proposal that offers tax breaks to attract large facilities, while calling a competing bill a major obstacle to new investment.
Meanwhile, proponents of the latter proposal have maintained they don’t intend to ban, via regulation, the building of new data centers. Instead, they said, they want to ensure that data centers, which require a lot of energy to operate, don’t detract Colorado from achieving its carbon goals.
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Kipp told The Sum & Substance, an online news site published by the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, that she is not aiming to prohibit data centers — but that their operations here must not act as a barrier to Colorado achieving its goal of net-zero-emission by 2050. She added that residents should not subsidize major tech companies, such as Meta, Google and Amazon.
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