Data-center law in Guam

Subnational jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-05

Guam has no data-center-specific siting or permitting statute.

The one incentive a data-center operator could use is the territory's Qualifying Certificate program, which makes a global internet infrastructure services company providing internet connectivity and co-location facilities, and its tenant-sellers, eligible for tax rebates or abatements administered by the Guam Economic Development Authority, conditioned on the seller operating from Guam, selling exclusively over the internet with no local sale, and not distributing material harmful to minors.

Guam's land-use, environmental-review, energy-grid, water-utilities, construction, and air-permitting law as applied specifically to a data center is not described here.

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Instruments on record

1 instrument on record, grouped by the family of approval each one governs.

Public agreements

What fiscal agreements attach a data center to its host jurisdiction?

Qualifying Certificate Program, global internet infrastructure services eligibility

In force

12 GCA § 58104(p)

Applies to private

A Qualifying Certificate entitles its holder to tax rebates or tax abatements, or both, administered by the Guam Economic Development Authority upon the approval of I Maga'håga/Maga'låhi (the Governor).

Among the priority-ordered activities that qualify an applying trust, partnership, LLC, or corporation formed under Guam law, Section 58104(p) names a global internet infrastructure services company providing internet connectivity and co-location facilities, and its tenant-sellers of goods, services, and information over the internet, conditioned on the seller being legally established in and operating from Guam, selling exclusively through the internet with no local sale, and not selling or distributing material harmful to minors as the Internet Tax Freedom Act defines that term.

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