# Found money: data center tax breaks and grants: Find the tax breaks, grants and rebates your business can claim from the data center build-out.

Canonical page: https://spezia.ai/tools/found-money

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.

- **Part of:** Work the data center build-out
- **Plan:** Ultra. Part of Ultra. A free account opens the whole build-out 3 days a month, so you can see it before you pay.
- **Open it:** [Find my money](https://spezia.ai/app/start?tool=found-money)

## 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

1. Open Found money.
2. Read the programs ranked for you, and enter your own numbers to sharpen the estimates.
3. Open a program's official page and apply, or see which incentives a project you sell to carries.

## Who uses it

- [Investors](https://spezia.ai/for/investors): Venture, growth, public-market and family-office investors
- [Data center contractors, suppliers and developers](https://spezia.ai/for/infrastructure): Contractors and trades, suppliers, developers, utilities and lenders

## Questions

### 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.