As Nebraska legislators hurry to push through two data center tax incentive bills, an anonymous company is evaluating sites in the state for a potential large data center, Omaha World-Herald reported. Called Project Photon, this is a second major data center project currently searching a location in Nebraska.

The first one is called Project Edge, an estimated US1.2bn investment by a company whose name has not been released.

After the legislature decided to tweak one of the tax incentive bills last week in what appeared to be a move to boost chances of attracting Photon, Joseph Young, with the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, said the state was now in a “much better position” to land Project Photon, according to the World-Herald.

The bill in its previous form extended benefits to data center projects of at least $300m. The proposed amendment would lower the bar to $200m, making it possible for the $200m Project Photon to take advantage of the incentives.

The legislation, if passed, will provide sales, property and personal-property tax benefits to data center projects that meet the criteria, which also include a requirement of creating at least 30 jobs.

The second bill moving through Nebraska’s legislative process would enable publicly owned utilities to leverage excess electricity they generate to negotiate lower rates for data center customers.