SB3168 would make certain new or expanded data centers eligible for up to two 10-year sales and use tax exemptions.
The Senate passed SB3168 on February 26, 2025, by a vote of 51 to 0. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because Big Tech and Big Government are colluding to erect a centralized, artificial intelligence (AI) surveillance infrastructure over the American population. The rapid construction of massive data centers in Mississippi and throughout the United States is a growing danger to Americans' personal privacy and property. It grants federal, state, and local authorities an unprecedented and unconstitutional amount of power to collect our phone calls, text messages, and internet communications. This dark, techno-oligarchic attempt to hear everything, see everything, and be everywhere at all times serves no lawful purpose but to conduct warrantless "unreasonable searches." Further, the abuse of eminent domain, as well as taxation, for these data centers encroaches upon constitutionally protected property rights. State lawmakers are duty-bound by oath to uphold the Fourth, Fifth, and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
