Google will pay for water hookups if it builds a data center. Newly released records show how county staff spent months catering to the tech giant’s needs.
Public bodies are preparing Wednesday to front-load as much as $300 million to secure a potential Google data center in Botetourt County — with the expectation the tech giant will reimburse them.
A draft agreement to fund a new water supply to Botetourt’s industrial park is “essential to the successful development of the Project,” which Roanoke leaders say could eventually require as much as 8 million gallons of water daily, initially drawn from Carvins Cove.
Google will pay for water hookups if it builds a data center, according to Garry Larrowe, Botetourt’s county administrator. For now, the county and Western Virginia Water Authority are poised to agree on a complex cost-sharing arrangement to bring water to the site…