According to reports from the independent news site Good Jobs First, and WTHR Indianapolis, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation and the Indiana Comptroller’s office failed to disclose over six hundred million dollars in data center tax exemptions.

The current amount of data center exemptions uncovered by journalists is $655 million, with Amazon taking up a large portion of that number at $611 million. Those numbers, however, only include state sales and use exemptions, and not local property tax abatements.

WTHR’s report included a statement from Amazon Web Services’ vice president of economic development, Roger Wehner, which read,

“Indiana set out to become a leader in the digital economy and Amazon is proud to be part of that story. We were one of the first data center developers to enter the state, and Indiana’s forward-looking policies have helped us grow at an unprecedented speed and scale.”

The Good Jobs First article pointed out that Indiana is not the only state failing to make these disclosures, “Others still in the dark should take their cue from the Hoosier State, including Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Utah.”

This news comes less than a year after Governor Mike Braun appointed nine new board members to the Indiana Economic Development Corporation in an effort to increase transparency.

Those appointments were made following a forensic audit of the IEDC which found a lack of oversight, conflicts of interest, and lavish spending on international travel.