How is spending $24 million a year on taxes not evidence that they lobbied, and received tax breaks and exemptions?

The reason they picked that location was because they get reduced rates.

50% off energy taxes.

Reduced property taxes.

I could go on.

https://siteselection.com/how-illinois-built-a-dream-home-fo...

Unless your arguing an example of a data centre that only received a tax break rather than exemption?

No, it's exactly the truth:

https://www.ncsl.org/fiscal/subsidizing-servers-how-states-a...

The legislatures are betting that the data centers stick around or bring in jobs. They won't. They think something that expensive must require a ton of jobs to maintain. It doesn't. They need low taxes, cheap land, cheap water, and cheap power.