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Data Centers
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SALT Shaker
Utah Governor Signs Amendment for Sales and Use Tax Exemptions
The Utah Governor signed a law amending sales and use tax exemptions in relation to certain data centers on March 31, 2020. S.B. 114 includes several measures including the definition…
Law & The Environment
Get Off of My Cloud – Online Storage is Not as Environmentally Sustainable as I Thought
This post was previously published on ACOEL.org. I read an article last week in Fortune magazine (free registration required) about the large amount of energy actually consumed by cloud storage and thought…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
FTC Alleges Nevada Data Center Company Made False Privacy Shield Claims
By Odia Kagan
In a complaint, the Federal Trade Commission alleges that between January 2017 and October 2018, RagingWire Data Centers, Inc. claimed in its online privacy policy that the company participated in…
GT Amsterdam Law Blog
Data Centers Stop in Amsterdam and Schiphol Airport Region
By Marijn Bodelier, Rutger Sterk
The municipalities of Amsterdam and Haarlemmermeer (home to Schiphol Amsterdam Airport) have announced a temporary halt of the realization of new data centers in their region. According to these municipalities,…
Pannone Corporate News and Opinion
Data company sells out to AIM-listed Iomart Group
By Tom Hall
The corporate teams at Pannone Corporate and KJG Chartered Accountants have advised entrepreneurs Rob Garbutt and Paddy Doyle on the sale of their company, LDeX, which operates data centres in…
Israel Global Gateway
Data centers are creating new opportunities in the RE market
DLA Piper Real Estate partners Jay Epstien and Mike Bedke comment on how "Data centers are creating new opportunities in the RE market" in an article in Globes. Click here…
SALT Shaker
Taxpayer’s Data Center-Related Purchases Ruled Mostly Exempt in Utah
By Zack Atkins & Open Weaver Banks The Utah State Tax Commission ruled that machinery and equipment purchased by the owner of a social networking community qualified for the state’s…
SALT Shaker
New Michigan Law Exempts Certain Data Center Equipment Purchases from Sales and Use Taxes as of January 1, 2016
By Evan Hamme and Charlie Kearns Purchases of “data center equipment for assembly, use, or consumption in the operations of a qualified data center” on or after January 1, 2016,…
Insurance Law Hawaii
Business Interruption Claim Granted in Part, Denied in Part
The court granted portions of the business interruption claim, while denying other portions. Phoenix Ins. Co. v. Infogroup, Inc., 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 162810 (S. D. Iowa Nov. 30, 2015). Phoenix…
Inside SALT
Tax Breaks for Data Centers: The Numbers Might Be Cloudy
States are competing aggressively to attract data centers with various tax incentives. Data center companies and their business customers are taking them up on their offers. But are these incentives…