Please use this TOOL To Contact Your Legislators today to request an immediate Pause on Anti-Data Center Legislation. Join the Pittsburgh Technology Council in Urging Full Consideration of Each Bill Before Final Passage
Last week, a sudden flurry of anti-data center bills and amendments rushed through the House, passing nearly unanimously. These fast-tracked measures target the core financial viability of the data center industry by repealing the sales and use tax exemption on data center equipment—a standard exemption currently available in 35 other states, no different than those provided to other industrial sectors in PA. Even more alarming, other active proposals—including House Bill 2496, which just passed the House 201-1, and Senate Bill 1359—call for outright moratoriums on new data center development.
If enacted, this highly disruptive legislation will freeze data center development in Pennsylvania and risk igniting a wildfire of similar restrictive actions across the country, directly threatening the supply chains, contracts, and factory orders your business relies on.
The Pittsburgh Technology Council is calling on legislative leaders and Governor Josh Shapiro to immediately PAUSE all action on this and other anti-data center legislation until proper hearings are held.
As our study, Pennsylvania Builds the Cloud, demonstrates, data centers are the single largest catalyst for new PA manufacturing jobs today. Our members build the specialized transformers, switchgear, cooling systems, and steel powering the nation's AI economy. Choking off this development could inavertantly block factory expansions and cost Pennsylvanians thousands of high-wage production jobs.
We are calling for a measured, deliberate approach before irreversible damage is done.
Please use our advocacy tool right now to send a calm, firm message to your State Senator and Representative. Tell them to support a temporary pause so the legislature can fully examine the unintended consequences these bills will have on our workers and factories.