Kashmir Hill: a Meta employee's 2024 idea to call AI data centers 'experimental' for a tax credit

NYT co-author Kashmir Hill says that in summer 2024 a Meta employee proposed claiming its AI data centers were 'experimental' to tap a research tax credit meant for novel challenges, saving the company billions. Gift link to the investigation by Jesse Drucker, @elitanjourno, Mike Isaac and Hill.

In the summer of 2024, an employee at Meta had a daring idea to save the company billions of dollars on its A.I. data centers: Claim they were 'experimental' to tap a lucrative tax credit meant to inspire companies to tackle novel challenges.

Gift link to investigation by @JesseDrucker, @elitanjourno, @MikeIsaac, and me: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/meta-ai-data-centers-taxes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FFE.Rydn.l-5QD63MggnK&smid=url-share

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