Amazon wants a 30-year, 70 percent property tax break for a $4 billion, 471-acre AWS data center in Wilmington that would bring at least 100 jobs and become a top local income-tax source.
For AI infra, this is another hyperscale build that leans hard on cheap water and power, with AES Ohio already engaged but local residents pushing back on environmental risk, outage procedures, and overall energy burden.
The nondisclosure-heavy process and limited public detail on wastewater and protections make this a useful case study in how communities are trading long-term tax base for AI-era data center growth, worth reading in full.
Source: Amazon proposes $4B data center in Wilmington, seeks tax abatement | WYSO
