Ohio

Pause on new data-center exemption requests

Statewide permit or approval pause

In effect This instrument is recorded as currently in effect as of the dataset date.

Summary

On May 27, 2026, Governor Mike DeWine said he had directed the chair of the Ohio Tax Credit Authority to pause consideration of new data-center tax-exemption requests while a Joint Data Center Committee studies data-center growth. The release says the Authority will stop accepting new proposals after its then-scheduled Monday meeting, and that one existing request would still be considered at that meeting. The release does not print that Monday's calendar day. It does not say exemptions already granted are cancelled. It is not a construction-permit pause and it does not order an operating facility to shut down. Ohio Revised Code section 122.175 remains a separate record.

Scope

The Governor’s 27 May 2026 release directs a pause in consideration of new data-center tax-exemption requests while the Joint Data Center Committee studies data-center growth. The Authority would stop accepting new proposals after its then-scheduled Monday meeting, while considering one existing request at that meeting. Previously granted exemptions are not stated to be cancelled. This concerns exemption requests, not construction permits or operating facilities.

Geographic scope
Ohio
Jurisdiction
State
Authority type
Executive
Issuing authority
Governor of Ohio

Dates

Adopted
No adoption day is recorded
Effective
27 May 2026
Scheduled expiration
See completion condition
Ended
Not recorded as ended
Completion condition
The pause on new requests continues while the Joint Data Center Committee's study is ongoing. The release states no calendar end. The Monday meeting is not an expiration.
Source document
27 May 2026
Last checked
22 September 2026
About this date

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What this does not establish

  • This is the governor's news release, not a statute and not a Tax Credit Authority order. The release is the opened text of the direction.
  • The Monday meeting's calendar day is not printed. May 27, 2026 was a Wednesday, so the release's reference to the Authority's scheduled Monday meeting is not stored as a specific day.
  • The release does not repeal section 122.175. Centers already granted an exemption are not described as losing it.
  • No end date is stated. The study is not an expiration.
  • The official release page answered automated link checks with HTTP 404 on 22 September 2026 while still opening in web browsers. The finding rests on the text saved that day and on the matching 1 September 2026 Internet Archive copy, not on the link staying reachable.
  • The release does not print the Monday meeting's calendar day. The Tax Credit Authority's own minutes identify it: the 27 April 2026 minutes schedule the next meeting for 1 June 2026, and the 1 June 2026 minutes record a data center tax exemption request considered and approved at that meeting. On that reading, the stop on accepting new proposals began after the 1 June 2026 meeting.
  • The release does not print the calendar day of the Monday meeting; the Authority's minutes show that meeting was held on 1 June 2026.

Unresolved questions

  • Whether the Authority adopted its own resolution implementing the direction; none appears in its published minutes for 1 June, 29 June or 27 July 2026.
  • Whether the pause has been lifted. The Authority's minutes for 29 June and 27 July 2026 and the Governor's 24 August 2026 release on that month's approvals list no data center tax exemption, but none of them states the pause, and minutes for 24 August 2026 were not posted on 23 September 2026.
  • Whether the Joint Data Center Committee has finished its study; the House committee meetings page lists hearings from 27 May to 11 June 2026 and no report.

Relationships

Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.

Sources

Primary source: Governor of Ohio page · Archived copy (1 September 2026) on governor.ohio.gov

Link status, checked 22 September 2026: On 22 September 2026 the governor's page opened in web browsers with HTTP 200, but the state's content network answered automated link checkers with HTTP 404. The release text was saved the same day from an HTTP 200 response, and it matches the Internet Archive copy captured on 1 September 2026. If the official page does not open, use the archived copy. On 23 September 2026 an automated request to the official page returned HTTP 200 with the same release text.

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