The Data Center Divide
A policy snapshot ahead of the 2026 midterms. Mapping data center incentives, restrictions, and bans through legislation, regulations, and executive actions across all 50 states and 1,462 local jurisdictions.
Dallas County
Mixed Data Center Policies
Texas combines substantial, long-term sales-tax breaks for qualifying large data centers with grid-connection studies, fees, and infrastructure costs that can make projects slower and more expensive. Some large facilities may also face emergency power reductions or grid-stability requirements; the tax benefits have demanding eligibility conditions.
Rating and summary from Texas statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Dallas County.
Specific to Dallas County only.
expired · County project: Equinix data-center tax-abatement request approved by Order 2019-0196This order approved a tax-abatement request for Equinix, a data-center company, in Dallas County.Dallas County Commissioners Court Order No. 2019-0196 (2019)
What this means
This source describes a public search tool for local economic-development agreements, not a data-center-specific building or operating rule. It says qualifying agreements must be reported, but provides no evidence that this creates meaningful barriers or incentives for data centers (agreements required to be reported).
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