Find the tax breaks, grants and rebates your business can claim from the data center build-out.
Federal, state, local and utility programs for the businesses that build, supply and finance U.S. data centers: tax credits, sales tax exemptions on equipment, training grants, abatements, utility rebates and cheaper financing. Each one is checked against its official page every week and ranked for your business, your trade and your states, with what it may be worth to a business like yours and how that was figured. Research, not tax or legal advice.
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Programs open to the build-out, by state
Real output from Spezia, read from the same data the tool uses. Every line links to its source.
- Federal programs open to the build-out
- 15
- State, local and utility programs
- 18
- States covered so far
- 9
- Texas5 programs, 2 for data center projects
- Texas data center sales tax exemption: 6.25% of qualifying purchases (the state rate; local tax still due), for 10 years at $200 million of investment or 15 years at $250 million.
- Texas JETI school tax value limitation: School district maintenance and operations taxable value of zero during construction, then limited for the agreement's term; jobs and investment minimums depend on county population.
- Texas city and county tax abatements (Chapter 312): All or part of the added value, for no more than 10 years, by agreement with each city or county.
- Georgia3 programs, 1 for data center projects
- Georgia high-technology data center equipment exemption: The sales and use tax otherwise due on qualifying equipment, through December 31, 2031.
- Georgia Job Tax Credit: Per new job each year: $3,500 in Tier 1 counties, $2,500 in Tier 2, $1,250 in Tier 3 and $750 in Tier 4.
- Georgia Power custom equipment upgrade rebates: Custom equipment upgrades: up to 50% of project costs.
- Virginia3 programs, 1 for data center projects
- Virginia data center sales and use tax exemption: The sales and use tax otherwise due on qualifying equipment, through June 30, 2035, or later for operators that commit to $35 billion or $100 billion.
- Virginia Jobs Investment Program: A budget per net new full-time job or retrained worker, set from an assessment of the company's recruiting and training; paid over about 36 months.
- Virginia Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund: Negotiated; minimums of 50 jobs and $5 million, or 25 jobs and $100 million (lower in distressed localities); local match dollar for dollar.
- Arizona2 programs, 1 for data center projects
- Arizona Computer Data Center Program: The state, county and city sales and use tax otherwise due on qualifying equipment, for up to 10 years after certification.
- Arizona Job Training grant: Up to $1,500,000 per grant; the company matches at least 25% (new employees) or 50% (current employees) of the training cost.
- Indiana1 program, 1 for data center projects
- Indiana data center sales tax exemption: The sales and use tax otherwise due on qualifying equipment and energy, for up to 25 years, or up to 50 years for investments above $750 million.
- Kansas1 program, 1 for data center projects
- Kansas data center sales tax exemption (SB 98): State and local sales tax otherwise due on eligible data center costs, for 20 years.
- Ohio1 program, 1 for data center projects
- Ohio computer data center sales tax exemption: The sales and use tax otherwise due on qualifying equipment and construction materials.
- Pennsylvania1 program, 1 for data center projects
- Pennsylvania computer data center equipment exemption: 6% of qualifying equipment purchases (the state rate; local tax still due).
- Wisconsin1 program, 1 for data center projects
- Wisconsin qualified data center exemption: The sales and use tax otherwise due on eligible property, once certified.
Ranked for your business, with what each may be worth to you, inside.
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Programs open or ending, each checked against its official page. Research, not tax or legal advice. Every program is checked against its official page, but whether you qualify depends on facts only you and your adviser can confirm.
What you get
Ranked for your business
Programs that fit what you do and where you work come first: a contractor's training grants in its state, a maker's credits, a developer's equipment exemptions, a lender's financing programs.
What it may be worth, and how
Each program shows its published terms and a range for a business like yours, with the numbers it assumed. Enter your own hires, training and spending to sharpen it.
Checked against the official page
Every program links to the agency, utility or statute page it comes from, and is read again each week for deadlines and changes. New federal funding is pulled from Grants.gov.
How it works
- 1Open Found money.
- 2Read the programs ranked for you, and enter your own numbers to sharpen the estimates.
- 3Open a program's official page and apply, or see which incentives a project you sell to carries.
Everything Ultra opens in the build-out
A free account opens all of it 3 days a month, so you can see it on your own projects before you pay. Ultra opens it every day.
- 1,047projects tracked
- 43states
- 408approved or under construction
- 79with an FAA or EPA record
- 3,147sources cited
Counted from the public tracker, researched November 9, 2026. How each project is checked
Find the jobs worth a call
Every tracked U.S. project, filtered and ranked for where you work and what you sell.
- Build-out overview. The U.S. AI data center build-out at a glance: projects, megawatts and what is moving.Ultra
- Projects list and filters. Filter every project by state, stage, size, named contractors, readiness and the trade buying now.Ultra
- Your territory. Every project in your territory ranked for your trades, buying now first, with the reason on each row.UltraTop 3 free
- Data center map. See every tracked project on one map by stage and size, and open its file from the pin.Ultra
- Demand by quarter. See megawatts and trade work starting by quarter and state, weighted by how likely each project is to go ahead.Ultra
- Geography. See which states and regions are getting the build-out.Ultra
- Trends. See how the build-out has changed over time, run by run.Ultra
- Public U.S. data center tracker. Every tracked project on a free public page, listed by state, with status, developer, size and the records behind it.Free
Know who to call, and when
Which trade packages each project is buying now, who holds them and the people on the job.
- Project file. One file per project: status, size, who is paying, building and supplying it, the news and every source.Ultra
- Buying stage and contacts. Know which trade packages each project is buying now, the dated evidence, who holds each package and who to call.Ultra
- Company dossiers and directory. Open the full file on any owner, builder or trade contractor: its projects, its money and its people.Ultra
- Ecosystem. See who pays, who builds and who supplies the build-out, layer by layer.Ultra
Prove a project is real and moving
Public records and imagery that show a site is approved, powered and being built, each with its source.
- Readiness signs. Four signs a project is real: utility contract, equipment orders, grid agreement and local approval, each sourced.Ultra
- Project file filings. The zoning, site plan, permit, utility and incentive filings found for each project, with their status and source.Ultra
- FAA crane filings. Cranes filed with the FAA at tracked sites: when steel goes up, with work dates and the builders named.Ultra
- EPA air and stormwater permits. EPA air and stormwater permits: when generators are planned and when grading may start.Ultra
- Site videos. How busy each site is, read from public drone and news videos, with the moment linked.Ultra
- Satellite readings. Ground cleared and buildings rising, read from open satellite images about monthly.Ultra
- Laws and local rules. Know every bill, law, ordinance, moratorium, tax incentive and power tariff on data centers, where it stands and which projects it covers.Ultra
- How the tracker is made. Read how each project is researched, checked and dated, with live counts of the records behind it.Free
Power and the grid
Where the power for each project comes from, who is waiting to connect and where it is short.
- On-site power plants. Data centers' own power plants, with every turbine, engine and fuel cell by maker and model.Ultra
- Planned power plants. See planned power plants from the government's own inventory, matched to the data center projects beside them.Ultra
- Grid connection queues. See every active request to connect in the PJM, MISO, SPP, CAISO and NYISO queues, by state, fuel, size and wait.Ultra
- Power gap by state. The power gap by state: data center megawatts beside the plants due and the generation waiting.Ultra
Found money, and who pays
The tax breaks, grants and rebates your business can claim, and who is paying for each job.
- Found money. Tax breaks, grants and rebates your business can claim from the build-out, ranked for you, with what each may be worth.Ultra
- Who funds the build-out. Who is paying for each job: owners, tenants, investors and lenders.Ultra
Get the data into your tools
Take the projects into Excel, your CRM, your own systems or your AI agent.
- Excel and CSV downloads. Download the projects you filtered as a spreadsheet for Excel or as CSV, for your CRM or your team.Ultra
- REST API. Pull the project data into your own systems: list and filter projects or fetch one with its sources, as JSON.Ultra
- Data center tools in your AI agent. Ask the AI agent you already use for projects, demand and power, read from Spezia with your key.Ultra
- API docs and free sample. Read every field of the API and download a free sample of Virginia projects without an account.Free
Stay on top of it
What moved this week, an email when a project you watch moves, and the weekly roundup.
- What changed. See what moved in the build-out since last week: new projects, stage changes and newly named companies.Ultra
- Build-out news. Read permits, land deals, power agreements and contracts as they happen, checked against their sources.Ultra
- Project Watch and the weekly roundup. Watch up to 25 projects and get a Monday email on the ones that moved since the weekly research run.Ultra
- Same-day watch alerts. Get an email the day a watched project gets a new site video, FAA crane filing, EPA permit or satellite reading.Ultra
- Spezia Data Center Weekly. A free email every Tuesday on what moved in the U.S. build-out, for readers who sell into, build or finance it.Free
- Monthly build-out report. A dated monthly report on the state of the U.S. data center build-out, written from the tracker's own data.Free
Who uses it
Questions about Found money: data center tax breaks and grants
Where do the programs come from?
From the official pages of the agencies, utilities and legislatures that run them: the IRS, the Department of Energy, the SBA, state revenue and economic development agencies, utility program pages and Grants.gov. Each program is matched to its official page by the exact words quoted from it, and read again every week. A program whose page no longer matches is marked to confirm first and left out of every total.
How is the value worked out?
Two ways, always labeled. The published terms are the program's own words: a percent of purchases, a dollar amount per job or per trainee, a cap. The estimate for your business multiplies those terms by your own numbers, or, until you enter them, by a stated guess for a business like yours. Deductions that only move tax between years, and loans, are shown but never added to the total.
Is this tax advice?
No. It is research. Whether you qualify depends on facts only you and your adviser can confirm, and each program's own rules decide.
Which plan includes it?
Ultra, with the rest of the build-out. A free account opens the whole build-out 3 days a month, and shows how many programs may fit a business like yours before that.
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Find the tax breaks, grants and rebates your business can claim from the data center build-out.
Part of Ultra. A free account opens the whole build-out 3 days a month, so you can see it before you pay.