Precinct-3

At 3:08 PM on July 21, Commissioner Kyle Workman emailed Crusoe a copy of Leon County’s new tax abatement checklist. The file was named “DRAFT_2026 Tax Abatement Checklist_NOT APPROVED.pdf.” It had not been adopted. It had not been posted. The public hearing on it was six days away. At 4:22 PM, I emailed the County Judge’s office and asked for a copy of the same document, so people could read it before the hearing. At 4:32 PM I was told it wasn’t finished and that I’d get it when it was. I never did. It went online July 29, two days after the vote. ...

There’s a new application sitting in the County Judge’s office, and it’s a big one. Crusoe Technologies, LLC — a Denver company — wants Leon County to carve a piece of Precinct 3 into a reinvestment zone and grant it a property tax abatement to build an AI data center campus. Multiple buildings, electrical substations, banks of backup generators. The works. They’ve put a number on it: $34 billion at full build-out. That number does a lot of heavy lifting in this application, so I read the whole thing — alongside the county’s own abatement rules — to see what we’d actually get in return. The short version: not much, and they’re asking for more than our rules allow. ...