Senate Finance Committee members openly discuss repealing the sales-tax exemption RETROACTIVELY for currently authorized data centers, not just future ones
At the Jul 27, 2026 hearing (already tracked as 2026-07-senate-finance-hearing-notice; the Comptroller's audit testimony from the same hearing is separately logged as 2026-07-comptroller-audit-noncompliance), committee members reportedly discussed repealing the data center sales-tax exemption not only for future projects but for facilities already authorized under it today, a harder-edged posture than the previously leaked draft bill (2026-07-tax-repeal-draft-bill), which proposed a Jan 1, 2027 effective date with no grandfather clause for projects under construction but did not describe stripping the exemption from facilities that have already qualified and been certified.
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