COMMENTARY: Virginia's data center tax exemption returns less to the state than it costs and has grown into a near-billion-dollar annual line, but leaders have not decided whether they have the will to change course, guest columnist Tommy Turner writes. virginiamercury.com/2026/06/11/t...
Virginia gave data centers a $928 million tax break in a single fiscal year, 2023, and the General Assembly cannot pass a budget because it can no longer agree on whether to keep doing it. That is…