COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (WOWT) – Google announced an additional investment Tuesday into the Council Bluffs Data Center and nearby water preservation efforts.
In this announcement, Google pledged another $1 billion expansion into the data center, in addition to $1.3 million going toward water preservation and conservation efforts in the Missouri River valley.
This comes nearly a year after Google pledged $350 million to the Data Center. This cash infusion will the whole project at just under 3 million square feet with more than $6 billion invested into the data center.
“It’s a really welcoming business environment,” Joe Kava, vice president of data centers at Google said. “The local people here in Council Bluffs are amazing, they have embraced us as one theirs. It’s really one of our homes. It’s our community. We’re active members of the community, and it’s been a wonderful relationship and that’s why we’d love to continue to invest here.”
The donation to efforts in the Missouri Valley River Basin are to improve water quality in the area. These efforts will be diverted into water preservation and conservation efforts. This parallels Google’s announcement last August, when $250,000 was pledged to entrepreneurial hub Advance Southwest Iowa.
This will be the fourth expansion of the Council Bluffs Data Center since its initial construction in 2007.
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