Is Kentucky About to Give Billions in Tax Breaks to Data Centers? - Kentucky Center for Economic Policy

kept by eddie aug 03

Kentucky’s data‑center sales‑tax exemption could cost the state over $1 billion in forgone revenue if awarded to just a few large, AI‑optimized facilities.

A Deluge of A.I. Computing Power Is About to Come Online, Fueling Major Leaps - The New York Times
AI chip count will double roughly every nine months, reaching about 200 million H100‑equivalent units by 2028 as massive data‑center construction ramps up worldwide.
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xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab - Martin Alderson
xAI's GPU rental deals with Anthropic and Google transform it into a datacenter REIT-like business, driven by financial engineering, compute shortages, and infrastructure advantages.
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