Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: tax incremental financing districts containing qualified data centers. (FE)
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- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, there is a sales and use tax exemption for certain property and items used to construct, operate, or renovate a qualified data center, as certified by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. Also under current law, the equalized value of the taxable property of a new or amended tax incremental district (TID) plus the value increment of all existing TIDs in a city or village may not exceed 12 percent of the total equalized value of taxable property in the city or village.
Under this bill, the 12 percent rule does not apply to a TID that contains within its boundaries a qualified data center certified by WEDC if all of the project costs of the TID are related to the qualified data center.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Registered lobbying interests · 19
Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record
- Amazon.com Services LLC
- Construction Business Group
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Construction Electrician Local Unions
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Utility Local Unions
- International Union of Operating Engineers Local #139
- League of Wisconsin Municipalities
- Madison Gas & Electric Company
- Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce
- NetChoice
- Northern Midwest Regional Council of Carpenters
- River Alliance of Wisconsin
- WEC Energy Group, Inc.
- Wisconsin Conservation Voters
- Wisconsin Data Center Coalition (WIDCC)
- Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce
- Wisconsin REALTORS Association
- Wisconsin Technology Council
- Wisconsin Utilities Association Inc
- ark data centers, LLC
Full history
- May 9, 2025 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Jagler and Feyen; cosponsored by Representatives Born, Brooks, Franklin, Green, B. Jacobson, Knodl, Kreibich, Melotik, Nedweski, O'Connor, Piwowarczyk, Snyder and Steffen
- May 9, 2025 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development
- May 12, 2025 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- May 12, 2025 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- May 21, 2025 · Senate
Public hearing held
- Mar 23, 2026 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1