A major sales tax break for data centers survived the latest biennial state budget cycle, although Ohio lawmakers could axe it anytime in the next year or so.

Legislators and lobbyists from across the aisle have said before they believe it’s time to rein in the incentives offered to the electric-intensive facilities taking over swaths of farmland. Among many measures in House Bill 96 , the legislature eliminated an exemption from sales taxes on materials contractors use to build the facilities.

But Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed that.

“You want to do things in the right doses,” Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel said Thursday, defending the decision. “You want to have data centers, you want to have new opportunities, you want to have the belief in your young people seeing that the new neat things are co

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