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No state data center incentive is in force. SB25-280, the Data Center Development & Grid Modernization Act, would have had the Office of Economic Development certify data centers investing at least $250 million with 25 qualifying jobs and at least 50% renewable sourcing for a 20-year, 100% sales and use tax exemption, plus a 10% income tax credit for grid investments; the Senate Appropriations Committee laid it over on May 8, 2025, and it did not pass. (Colorado General Assembly, May 8, 2025) HB26-1030 (Rep. Alex Valdez; Sen. Kyle Mullica) would have given certified data centers a 20-year sales and use tax exemption on computer equipment, software, energy storage and cooling systems, extendable to 30 years, in exchange for $250 million of investment within five years, jobs paying at least 110% of the local average wage, closed-loop or similar water recycling and protections for other power customers; the House Energy and Environment Committee postponed it indefinitely 11-2 on May 7, 2026. (Colorado Public Radio / The Colorado Sun, May 7, 2026; Colorado Newsline (via Kiowa County Press), May 12, 2026; Law Week Colorado, July 27, 2026) SB26-102 (Sen. Cathy Kipp; Rep. Kyle Brown) offered no tax break and would have covered new or expanded data centers above 30 MW of peak load (or 60 MW across several facilities): from 2031 they would match 100% of yearly use with renewable power, with an hourly-matching standard set by the PUC, sign utility contracts of at least 15 years or pay upfront, and pay for infrastructure built to serve them; the Senate Transportation and Energy Committee postponed it indefinitely at the sponsor's request on May 11, 2026, after compromise talks failed. Kipp and Brown told Newsline they plan a 2027 bill. (Colorado Newsline (via Kiowa County Press), May 12, 2026; Law Week Colorado, July 27, 2026; Colorado Newsline (via KUNC), Aug. 10, 2026) Colorado PUC: in late 2025 the commission told Xcel Energy (Public Service Company of Colorado) to follow a set of negotiating principles with data center developers, among them upfront payments, contracts of 15 years, minimum monthly bills, security deposits and fees for leaving early, and ordered it to file a more binding large-load tariff. The Independence Institute wrote that the principles covered customers of 50 MW or more and set a $250,000 study deposit. The proceeding number for the principles was not found in the sources reviewed. (The Colorado Sun (via KUNC), Dec. 11, 2025; Independence Institute, April 9, 2026) PUC Proceeding No. 26AL-0137E: Xcel filed Advice Letter No. 2018-Electric on April 2, 2026, for a framework covering new or expanded loads of 50 MW or more, a new Schedule TL (transmission large service) rate, an optional Clean Transition Tariff and changes to its transmission line extension policy. The commission suspended the tariff for 120 days (Decision No. C26-0280, April 30, 2026), admitted intervenors including Staff, the Utility Consumer Advocate, Google, the Data Center Coalition, Denver, Boulder, Black Hills and environmental groups (Decision No. C26-0396-I, June 15, 2026), and asked that the evidentiary hearing end by Oct. 28, 2026. The Independence Institute summarized the filing as a 15-year contract, a minimum bill of 80% of contracted demand, a six-month security deposit and a $120,000 study deposit; no final decision was found. (Colorado Public Utilities Commission (copy posted by Earthjustice), June 15, 2026; Earthjustice, May 21, 2026; Independence Institute, April 9, 2026) Tri-State Generation and Transmission, wholesale supplier to rural cooperatives, said FERC approved its High-Impact Load Tariff on Aug. 14, 2026, subject to a compliance filing within 30 days; it applies to loads above 45 MW (or forecast to pass 45 MW within four years) and includes security payments, a minimum term and minimum demand and energy charges. Big Pivots reported that an earlier filing was rejected on procedural grounds in October 2025. Tri-State's CEO told Big Pivots that month it had about 4 GW of data center requests. The FERC docket number was not confirmed in the sources opened. (Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Aug. 14, 2026; Big Pivots (via KUNC), Oct. 26, 2025; Big Pivots (via Kiowa County Press), Dec. 30, 2025) Colorado Springs Utilities' 2026 pricing plan, approved by the City Council (its board) in October 2025, requires customers above 10 MW to sign 10-year contracts, post collateral, pay for the infrastructure built to serve them and pay minimum monthly bills. Axios reported in April 2026 that Black Hills Energy was weighing a large-load tariff for southern Colorado; no Black Hills docket was found in the sources reviewed. (Colorado Public Radio, Oct. 30, 2025; Axios Denver, April 14, 2026) Incentives found are local, not state: Douglas County's $19.3 million business personal property tax rebate for Flexential in Parker (Aug. 11, 2026), and a Denver sales and use tax rebate of up to $9 million proposed for CoreSite in 2024, whose council outcome was not found. No OEDIT incentive for a data center was found in the sources reviewed. (Denver7, Aug. 11, 2026; DatacenterDynamics, Aug. 30, 2024) Colorado data centers →