County committee recommends barring tax breaks for hyperscale data centers
URBANA - A Champaign County Board committee on Tuesday recommended that the county refuse to negotiate tax breaks for hyperscale data centers, according to the committee's Oct. 13 action report.
The Committee of the Whole sent the full County Board a resolution that would prohibit the county from negotiating tax abatement agreements, payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements and other concessions for building hyperscale data centers anywhere in the county. The action report shows 13 members were present. It does not list a vote count.
At the same meeting, the committee recommended a separate ordinance prohibiting non-disclosure agreements. The action report does not say who those agreements would cover.
The committee placed the data center resolution on the consent agenda for the full County Board. The non-disclosure ordinance was not placed on the consent agenda and will come to the board as a separate item. The report does not give a date for that vote.
Source: Champaign County Board Committee of the Whole action report, Oct. 13, 2026 (https://www.champaigncountyil.gov/CountyBoard/Committee_Of_The_Whole/2026/261013_Meeting/261013Action.pdf).
Correction, Oct. 15, 2026: An earlier version of this story said neither recommendation was placed on the consent agenda. The data center resolution was placed on the consent agenda; the non-disclosure ordinance was not. A sentence about a county data center task force that could not be confirmed from the record was also removed.