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Guaranteed tax revenue, river funding, affordable housing: What DeForest negotiated before a data center deal collapsed

“The tax benefits are big,” said professor Ross Milton, a local government tax expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Milton said the guarantee means that even if the data center’s property valuation didn’t reach $1.2 billion, the village would still receive the amount of property tax revenue as if it did, though other local taxing bodies would not.