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根据这项七项计划，获批数据中心项目收入的50%将用于为全州居民提供直接税收减免
作者：查尔斯·克赖茨
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西弗吉尼亚州领导人正在升级围绕数据中心的辩论，州长帕特里克·莫里西与议员们共同推出了一项七项计划，旨在减少并最终取消州所得税，同时解决自然资源和基础设施方面的担忧。
该计划出台之际，数据中心正成为全国性的政治热点问题，各州都希望从数十亿美元的投资和新增就业岗位中分一杯羹，而社区则对公用事业成本、水资源使用和地方控制权提出担忧。为人工智能热潮提供支撑的大型设施也推高了电力需求，给全国的电网带来新的压力。
根据该计划，西弗吉尼亚州将把获批的超大规模数据中心项目产生的收入的50%用于减少并最终取消州个人所得税，同时将部分剩余收入分配给各县和用于基础设施项目。
“如今，世界正站在新的数字和经济前沿的风口浪尖，西弗吉尼亚州再次挺身而出引领潮流，不是重复其他州的错误，而是按照我们的愿景实施一项前瞻性的20年发展战略，”莫里西在福克斯新闻数字频道获取的一份声明中说道。
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莫里西计划中列出的第二项“原则”称，所有西弗吉尼亚州民众都应从通过查尔斯顿“高影响力数据中心指定(HIDC)”程序获批的数据中心项目及其产生的收入中获益。该程序是根据2025年的一项单独州法律设立的。
莫里西的计划包括“为公民提供直接税收减免”，HIDC的收入不会进入州总基金。
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“根据法律规定，项目收入的50%将直接用于减少并最终取消州个人所得税，”计划中写道。
托管数据中心的县将获得30%的收入用于学校和地方政府，10%将分配给全州55个县，另外10%将用于基础设施升级，包括公共供水系统。自煤炭行业衰落以来一直举步维艰的西弗吉尼亚州南部部分地区，水资源基础设施已成为争议焦点。
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“这一共享框架为我们提供了所需的精准蓝图，能够吸引数十亿美元的私人投资，创造数千个高薪建筑和技术岗位，为我们的公民减税，振兴经济疲软地区，同时保护我们称之为家园的这片狂野而美好的州，”莫里西说道。
但税收减免的承诺背后，一些西弗吉尼亚州民众正在担忧谁将承担该州数据中心扩张的成本。
支撑州长计划的两党法案还旨在保护公用事业客户免受额外成本的影响——这是东潘汉德尔地区的一大担忧，该地区毗邻华盛顿都会区。
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“禁止数据中心”的标语在杰斐逊县、伯克利县以及邻近的弗吉尼亚州克拉克县的道路上越来越常见，居民们指出附近的弗吉尼亚州劳登县，那里大规模的数据中心开发已经日益逼近住宅社区和商业中心。
“我们是全国其他地区的前车之鉴，”来自阿什本的弗吉尼亚州民主党众议员苏哈斯·苏布拉马尼亚姆在近期批评数据中心激增的讲话中说道。“[如果]我的选区是一个国家，它的数据中心数量将超过世界上几乎所有其他国家。”
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回到西弗吉尼亚州，随着数据中心开发加速，一些州议员正在推动增加保障措施。
西弗吉尼亚州众议院少数党领袖肖恩·亨巴克（民主党，亨廷顿）是2025年法案的提案人之一，该法案为该计划奠定了基础，但他最近表示，应该修改该法律，允许在数据中心开发方面拥有一定的地方控制权。
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“我们不会允许我们的社区遭到恶意接管。在我们的任期内，这种情况绝不会发生，”亨巴克在6月份对《斯廷维尔先驱星报》说道。
“我们都知道第2014号众议院法案做了什么，它在西弗吉尼亚州开创了一个非常危险的先例，[我们都知道]我们珍视自己的财产权，”他补充道。
但莫里西在给福克斯新闻数字频道的评论中强调，“所有西弗吉尼亚州民众都必须直接从数据中心收入中获益。”
“根据法律规定，50%的收益……将专门用于直接减少并最终取消州所得税。”
“[这]非常有力[而且]将造福许许多多西弗吉尼亚州民众。”
西弗吉尼亚州的所得税已经在下降。共和党籍参议员吉姆·贾斯蒂斯在担任州长期间签署了创纪录的21%减税法案，莫里西今年又跟进了5%的减税。最高边际税率目前为4.58%。
西弗吉尼亚州众议院议长罗杰·汉斯霍的发言人表示，该计划来自州长办公室，但呼应了立法机构在2025年法律中通过的内容。
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2024年7月28日，弗吉尼亚州斯通里奇的亚马逊网络服务数据中心。随着人工智能推高电力需求，北弗吉尼亚州的数据中心开发商正在向公用事业公司 Dominion Energy Inc. 申请相当于数个核反应堆发电量的电力。(内森·霍华德/盖蒂图片社)
汉斯霍支持西弗吉尼亚州的数据中心开发，此前他对《沃伦论坛报-纪事报》表示，查尔斯顿“不仅与工业伙伴作为朋友和盟友合作，发展和多元化经济，还对对其所坐落的社区、西弗吉尼亚州人民以及我们共同代表的居民至关重要的行业进行适当监管”。
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莫里西的计划还侧重于电网可靠性，要求数据中心开发商直接与PJM及其他州际电网运营商合作。该计划还将西弗吉尼亚州的数据中心定位为具有国家安全意义的战略基础设施，在美国与中国的竞争中发挥作用。
West Virginia looks to AI data center boom to help eliminate state income tax
August 30, 2026 8:00am EDT / Fox News
Under the seven-point plan, 50% of approved data center project revenue would fund direct tax relief for all state residents
By Charles Creitz
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West Virginia leaders are escalating the debate over data centers, with Gov. Patrick Morrisey unveiling a seven-point plan developed with lawmakers to reduce and eventually eliminate the state income tax while addressing concerns about natural resources and infrastructure.
The plan comes as data centers are becoming a political flashpoint nationwide, with states looking to cash in on billions of dollars in investment and new jobs while communities raise concerns about utility costs, water use and local control. The massive facilities needed to power the artificial intelligence boom are also driving electricity demand higher, putting new pressure on power grids across the country.
Under the plan, West Virginia would dedicate 50% of revenue generated by approved hyperscale data center projects to reducing and eventually eliminating the state personal income tax, while directing some remaining revenue to counties and infrastructure projects.
“Today, as the world stands on the cusp of a new digital and economic frontier, West Virginia is stepping forward once again to lead, not by repeating the mistakes of other states, but by implementing a proactive, 20-year development strategy on our terms,” Morrisey said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital.
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Country roads take West Virginians home across the Virginia state line near Charles Town, where the data center debate has intensified.(Charlie Creitz/Fox News)
The second listed “principle” in Morrisey’s plan says all West Virginians should benefit from data center projects approved through Charleston’s “High Impact Data Center Designation (HIDC)” process and the revenue they generate. The process was established under a separate 2025 state law.
Morrisey’s plan includes “direct tax relief for citizens,” with none of the HIDC revenue entering the state general fund.
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“By law, 50 percent of project revenue is dedicated directly to reducing and ultimately eliminating the State Personal Income Tax,” the plan reads.
Counties hosting data centers would receive 30% of the revenue for schools and local government, while 10% would be distributed to all 55 counties and another 10% would fund infrastructure upgrades, including public water systems. Water infrastructure has become a flashpoint across parts of southern West Virginia that have struggled since the coal industry’s decline.
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“This shared framework gives us the exact blueprint we need to attract billions in private investment, create thousands of high-paying construction and technology jobs, lower taxes for our citizens, and revitalize economically distressed regions, all while preserving the wild and wonderful state we call home,” Morrisey said.
But the promise of tax relief comes as some West Virginians are raising concerns about who could bear the costs of the state’s data center expansion.
The bipartisan bill underpinning the governor’s plan also sought to protect utility customers from added costs — a major concern across the Eastern Panhandle, which borders the Washington, D.C. metro area.
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A West Virginia welcome sign greets travelers leaving the East River Mountain Tunnel on Interstate 77 near Princeton, W.V.(Fox News/Charles Creitz)
“No Data Centers” signs are becoming common along roads in Jefferson and Berkeley counties and neighboring Clarke County, Virginia, as residents point to nearby Loudoun County, Virginia, where sprawling data center development has increasingly pushed up against residential subdivisions and commercial centers.
“We are a cautionary tale for the rest of the country,” Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., of Ashburn said in recent remarks critical of the data center explosion. “[I]f my district were a country, it would have more data centers than almost every other country in the world.”
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Back in West Virginia, some state lawmakers are pushing for additional safeguards as data center development accelerates.
West Virginia House Minority Leader Sean Hornbuckle, D-Huntington, was listed as a sponsor of the 2025 bill that helped set the plan in motion but recently said the law should be amended to allow some local control over data center development.
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“We are not going to allow a hostile takeover in our communities. It’s not going to happen on our watch,” Hornbuckle said in June, according to the Steubenville Herald-Star.
“We all know what House Bill 2014 did, and it’s setting a very dangerous precedent in the state of West Virginia, [where] we all know we love our property rights,” he added.
But Morrisey emphasized in comments to Fox News Digital that “all West Virginians must directly benefit from data center revenue.”
“By statute, 50% of the proceeds … will be dedicated to directly reducing and ultimately eliminating the state income tax.”
“[It’s] very powerful [and] it’s going to benefit many, many West Virginians.”
West Virginia income taxes have already been falling. Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.V., signed a record 21% cut while serving as governor, and Morrisey followed with another 5% reduction this year. The top marginal rate stands at 4.58%.
A spokesperson for West Virginia House Speaker Roger Hanshaw said the plan came from the governor’s office but echoes what the legislature enacted in the 2025 law.
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An Amazon Web Services data center in Stone Ridge, Virginia, on July 28, 2024. Data center developers in Northern Virginia are asking utility Dominion Energy Inc. for as much power as several nuclear reactors can generate as artificial intelligence helps drive up electricity demand.(Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
Hanshaw has supported data center development in West Virginia, previously telling the Warren Tribune-Chronicle that Charleston is “not only working with industrial partners as friends and allies to grow and diversify an economy, but also to regulate appropriately industries that are important to the communities in which they’re situated to the people of West Virginia and to the residents that we all collectively represent.”
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Morrisey’s plan also focuses on power grid reliability, requiring data center developers to work directly with PJM and other interstate grid operators. The plan also casts data centers in West Virginia as strategic infrastructure with national security implications in the nation’s competition with China.
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