Data centers; expands sales and use tax exemption.

Sales and use tax exemption for data centers.Expands the sales and use tax exemption for data centers by allowinga qualifying data center to use the exemption for purchases for itsfacilities located in the same locality as the data center. The billprovides that if a data center operator qualifies for the exemptionin one locality and seeks to qualify in another, it shall not berequired to meet the job creation requirement for purposes of qualifyingin the other locality. The bill requires all data centers claimingthe exemption to report certain information to be published annuallyby the Department of Taxation.