{"id":66680,"date":"2026-02-18T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/illinois-governor-proposes-cancelling-tax-breaks-for-datacenters\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:59:00","slug":"illinois-governor-proposes-cancelling-tax-breaks-for-datacenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/illinois-governor-proposes-cancelling-tax-breaks-for-datacenters\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois governor proposes cancelling tax breaks for datacenters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pritzker\u2019s move reflects increasing public pushback against resource-hungry facilities used to power the AI boom<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois governor JB Pritzker proposed a two-year break from offering tax incentives for datacenters, a reflection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/13\/datacenters-us-political-opposition\">increasing public pushback<\/a> against the massive, resource-hungry facilities used to power the modern AI boom.<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker made the proposal, which will need the backing of state lawmakers, during his annual state of the state address, which covers Illinois budget and policy plans. The plan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/gov-jb-pritzker-suspending-tax-incentives-data-centers-illinois-rcna259297\">was first reported<\/a> by NBC News.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/18\/illinois-pritzker-tax-breaks-data-centers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pritzker\u2019s move reflects increasing public pushback against resource-hungry facilities used to power the AI boom The Illinois governor JB Pritzker proposed a two-year break from offering tax incentives for datacenters, a reflection of increasing public pushback against the massive, resource-hungry facilities used to power the modern AI boom. Pritzker made the proposal, which will need &#8230; <a title=\"Illinois governor proposes cancelling tax breaks for datacenters\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/illinois-governor-proposes-cancelling-tax-breaks-for-datacenters\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Illinois governor proposes cancelling tax breaks for datacenters\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}