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It’s “exemptions from state and local sales tax on materials, services and equipment used in the construction, renovation and equipping of the Project” and that includes a whole lot more than local construction industry stuff. Most of the cost of a data center comes from servers and other hardware, in particular. Also, there’s other tax breaks (like the property tax abatement) that come from working within IDA.

I do agree that local jobs have nothing to do with this decision, because it’s clearly a stupid one if that’s the case.