The Minnesota Star Tribune reports…

After weeks of deliberations and a one-day special session, the Minnesota Legislature has finished its work.

There were impassioned speeches and some disagreements, but legislators mostly stayed on track and finished passing their agenda of 14 bills before a Tuesday morning deadline.

That included the remaining pieces of the state’s $66 billion budget, which needed to be finished by July 1 in order to avoid a partial government shutdown. The bills are on their way to Gov. Tim Walz’s desk for his signature.

That included increased taxes for data centers…

Data center regulations: Lawmakers approved new regulations for an influx of large-scale data centers. Data centers will have to pay for energy conservation work, and abide by policy meant to protect the state’s water and climate goals and ensure that the electric bills of other customers won’t rise because data centers use a huge amount of electricity. The Legislature also agreed to extend lucrative sales tax breaks for the industry on computers, servers, software, cooling and energy equipment, but eliminated an exemption for electricity use.