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27 October
6:31 pm

The data center just south of Cedar Rapids received five hundred and twenty nine million dollars in property tax abatements, and contractually, to get that, they're required to create thirty jobs.

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Zach Lahn, at Iowa Governor General Election Debate (KCRG / The Gazette)

6:31 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific dollar figure for tax abatements and a specific job creation requirement are concrete, verifiable claims that, if inaccurate, would significantly undermine the speaker's argument about bad deals for Iowa taxpayers.
What we foundThe $529 million figure and the 30-job contractual requirement are both confirmed by multiple genuinely independent sources, including the city's official development agreement records, original Gazette reporting, independent Washington Times review of signed agreements, and CBS2 Iowa.
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