Big Tech Eyes Billions in Public Subsidies for AI, Cloud Computing

Artificial intelligence is accelerating the demand for data centers equipped to process AI operations – and automatic taxpayer subsidies are already quietly and secretively flowing to the world's biggest companies.

The letters AI over a computer-looking set of data center servers and computers

Featured databases

Violation Tracker

Corporate crime and misconduct

Tax Break Tracker

Governmental tax abatement disclosures

Subsidy Tracker

Government financial assistance to business

Amazon Tracker

Subsidies awarded to the corporate giant

See all databases

Good Jobs First in the news

ERC Adviser Spends Over Half a Million Lobbying Congress

Oct 27, 2023

Dollars bills in the background; in the foreground is a oil drill

‘Deeply Troubling’ Lack of UK North Sea Oil and Gas Monitoring

Oct 12, 2023

As school funding runs dry, Riverhead residents call to shut down economic development org

Oct 11, 2023

Tesla's Elon Musk, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, real estate mogul and Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffet, Under Armour’s Kevin Plank, Apple’s Tim Cook.

Investigative Post’s Monday Morning Read highlights Good Jobs First subsidy report

Oct 8, 2023

See all news

Latest publications

Reparative Tax Policy: Racial Justice on the Line is the report title; image of people standing on steps holding signs like "End Cancer Alley" and "Black Lives Matter"

Reparative Tax Policy: Racial Justice on the Line in Louisiana

October 2023

Power Outrage: Will Heavily Subsidized Battery Factories Generate Substandard Jobs?

July 2023

See all publications

From the blog

This is how American taxpayers subsidize international conflict

Dec 4, 2023

Cashing in Their Chips: Semiconductor Manufacturers Will Reap Billions from Little-Known CHIPS Act Provision

Nov 30, 2023

Big Tech eyes billions in public subsidies for AI, cloud computing

Nov 27, 2023

Good Jobs First staff celebrate article written about former Good Jobs New York Director Bettina Damiani.

Donor Challenge: $25K for 25 Years!

Nov 14, 2023

See all blogs

Featured projects

Ending Amazon Giveaways

Tax Abatement Disclosures

Shrinking Opportunity Zones

Protecting Public Education

See all projects