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Central government initiatives to stimulate investments in data centres

(RiR 2022:18)

To attract investment, the energy tax for data centres was greatly reduced in 2017. The Swedish National Audit Office’s audit shows that the decision was based on documentation with clear deficiencies, in which neither the companies’ nor society’s needs were addressed. As yet no evaluation has been carried out.