To prohibit the provision of Federal financial benefit for the construction, expansion, or substantial rehabilitation of data centers on prime farmland and other certain farmland.
Sponsored By: Representative Miller, Mary E. [R-IL-15]
Introduced
Summary
Would block federal financial support for data centers built on prime or other farmland identified by the Farmland Protection Policy Act. It targets data centers as defined in the Energy Independence and Security Act and would bar federal grants, loans, tax credits, deductions, accelerated depreciation, and similar benefits for projects that begin after enactment on that land.
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- Farmers and rural communities: Keeps federal incentives away from FPPA-designated farmland, which could help preserve agricultural land and limit conversion to data center use.
- Data center companies and developers: Would remove access to federal financial assistance and tax benefits for covered projects, changing project economics and likely steering new builds off protected farmland.
- Federal agencies and tax policy: Restricts agencies from providing the listed federal financial benefits for projects that meet the bill’s EISA and FPPA-based tests, using those statutes to determine coverage.
*Would likely reduce federal outlays and tax expenditures tied to data center projects on protected farmland by cutting eligible federal financial benefits.*
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No federal subsidies for farmland data centers
If enacted, federal agencies would not be able to give money or tax breaks for building, expanding, or major renovation of data centers on certain farmland. The ban would apply only to data centers as defined in 42 U.S.C. 17112(a)(1). It would apply only where the site was described as prime or other protected farmland under the Farmland Protection Policy Act immediately before work began. "Federal financial benefit" would include federal financial assistance under 31 U.S.C. 7501(a)(5) and any federal tax credit, deduction, accelerated depreciation, transferable tax, or other federal financial benefit. The prohibition would operate notwithstanding any other law and would cover projects that begin construction, expansion, or substantial rehabilitation after enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Miller, Mary E. [R-IL-15]
IL • R
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
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