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Answer
Verdict on the wording above: Contradicted Reliable evidence conflicts with the claim as stated (unit, relationship, status or fact). It does not prove bad faith. How verdicts work →
- How it was framed
- A question DataCenterData examined; no one is quoted.
- What the evidence establishes
- No one is quoted saying this; DataCenterData framed and tested the reading. The evidence conflicts with it as worded: The city calls $178 million a payroll equivalent: the amount of payroll that would yield the same revenue at its 2% income-tax rate.
- Biggest limitation
- The hyperscaler's identity, underlying component revenue records, actual payroll and employee or contractor headcount.
- Checked
- 12 September 2026 · Next review: Company-level tax receipt, service-payment or TIRC record identifying the hyperscaler and components · History (1) →
Evidence
What the evidence supports
The city calls $178 million a payroll equivalent: the amount of payroll that would yield the same revenue at its 2% income-tax rate. It is a city-reported comparison for one hyperscaler, not the operator's reported payroll, a headcount or an independently reconciled tax-receipt audit.
Still unknown
The hyperscaler's identity, underlying component revenue records, actual payroll and employee or contractor headcount.
Sources
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New Albany city-finance page → Archived copy Gov. record
Exact location Data Centers are a Financial Benefit to New Albany, first paragraph; 2% rate under How does New Albany's minimum annual service payment formula work?, item 3
What it supports City-reported payroll-equivalent tax-base figure at a 2% income-tax rate, not operator payroll or headcount.
Conflicting evidence
The contradiction is documented in the cited sources listed under Evidence. No separate counterevidence entry has been recorded yet.
Corrections and history
Correction · 12 September 2026 · Software-assisted second check
Record → Taxes / jobs
Field Taxes / jobs
From Statewide tax/jobs scope; underlying operator not specified
To One unnamed New Albany hyperscaler, tax year 2024 payable 2025; city-reported comparison
Why The second review narrowed the place, taxpayer and time scope and made the missing underlying records explicit.
Evidence No additional evidence link; see the linked record or claim.
Review details
Scope
- Unit
- payroll-equivalent revenue comparison
- Geography
- one unnamed hyperscaler in the City of New Albany, Ohio
- Period
- tax year 2024, payable 2025
- Confidence
- medium
- Kind
- Question reviewed
Chronology
- Source retrieved
- Sources re-read (software-assisted second check, not an outside audit)
- Changed wording recorded
- Checked by DataCenterData
- Date not established Next review: Company-level tax receipt, service-payment or TIRC record identifying the hyperscaler and components
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