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Supervisors hit brakes, push vote on Amazon data center tax incentives into 2024

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The Stafford County Board of Supervisors didn't give Amazon Web Services the Christmas gift it wanted during a specially-called meeting today, December 28, 2023.

The data center behemoth pushed the board to waive its bylaws and approve financial incentives to benefit the company for 25 years. During that time, Amazon promises to build server farms in various spots across the county.

An estimated $6 billion in water and infrastructure upgrades are needed before Amazon can begin to build. Under the proposal, the county would provide tax breaks for up to 60 percent of annual tax revenues generated by the server farms in exchange for Amazon to make the upgrades, to power the water and power-hungry data centers that power the internet.

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