Nashville-based HCA, one of the world’s largest private operators of healthcare facilities, is planning to build a data center in its home region.

The Nashville Metropolitan City Council is considering an ordinance that will give the company a series of tax breaks for the project, The Tennessean reported. If passed, the company will get the tax incentives over a seven-year period if it meets certain economic-development obligations.

It the council approves the tax breaks on real and personal property, HCA will pay only 40% of the tax obligation the project in Antioch, Tennessee, would otherwise create.

By 2017, the company is planning to have invested US$200m into the data center. Investing as much as it promises and creating at least 155 new jobs are the main conditions of the tax agreement being discussed.

Neither the investment, nor the jobs have to be at the actual data center site, however. According to the Tennessean, any investment and job creation in the surrounding Davidson County by HCA’s IT department would count toward the obligation.

The hospital chain’s plan is to build a 96,000 sq ft data center on a 55-acre site it bought in October 2011 for $2.2m. The company expects to complete the work by the end of 2013.

HCA is planning to move a regional data center currently at its Nashville headquarters to the new facility once it’s completed. The company also has data centers in Anchorage, Alaska, Fort Worth, Texas, and Orlando, Florida, according to the Tennessean.

HCA’s healthcare facilities footprint consists of more than 160 hospitals and more than 100 surgery centers in the US and England. The company reported revenue of about $30bn in 2011.