NY County Giving JPMorganChase $77 Million in Tax Breaks for Creating Just 1 Job at Data Center
Watchdog groups say the deal is the nation’s largest per-job subsidy, while critics argue the public return is too small for the tax break.
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JPMorganChase Data Center Gets $77 Million Handout to Create Grand Total of One Job
Back in March, we shared the story of a $136 million data center going up in Northeastern Ohio, which was slated to bring in a whopping ten full-time jobs. That project received a $4.5 million state tax exemption, which is egregious enough on its own — but a new project in New York State is making that Ohio handout look like chump change. First reported by New York Focus, a data center being built by financial giant JPMorganChase is receiving $7…
NY county giving JPMorganChase $77 million in tax breaks for creating just 1 job at data center
By Colin Kinniburgh
A Data Center Is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break. It Promises to Create 1 Job.
On a February morning in 2024, a little-known agency in Rockland County held a public hearing on a proposed subsidy for the expansion of a JPMorganChase data center in Orangeburg, near the New Jersey border. In return for nearly $77 million in tax breaks, the project promised to create exactly one permanent job. No one showed up. After 20 minutes of silence, an agency official called the… Source
New Jersey datacenter expansion got $77m in tax breaks to create exactly one permanent job — JPMorgan's site already scored $35m and currently employs just 25 workers
A New Jersey data center expansion saw a tax break of $77,000,000, despite the fact that it would create exactly one new permanent job in the state.
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