Google gains approval to site and construct Data Center in Port of TD
A recent photo shows the Whiting -Turner construction sign at 3500 River Road next to some recently sited modular buildings that typically house offices for general contractors. Whiting-Turner construction is the general contractor for the Google data center.
By Tom Peterson
The Dalles Community Development Director Joshua Chandler recently signed the approval of an administrative decision to allow Google to site and construct one single-story data center with a separate office building and associated infrastructure.
The data center will be built at 3,500 River Road and will be 288,530 square-feet in size according to the notice given by The City of The Dalles. Click here for the administrative decision.
Star above indicates site for new data center. Click to enlarge.
The request for the site and construct was made by Whiting-Turner construction, which is the general contractor for the development.
The property is owned by Design LLC, a company owned by Google.
It will be the fourth such data center for Google in The Dalles, and its construction has been estimated to cost as much as $600 million to develop.
Google has agreed to pay up to 50 percent of property taxes via fees and property taxes once the structure receives a certificate of occupancy.
The application comes after years of negotiations where a team of city and county members put together a two-data center package that will bring up to $125 million in estimated new property taxes and fees, according to The Dalles Mayor Rich Mays.
The agreement abates an estimated $147 million in property taxes during the 20-year term of the deal.
At the same time, the agreement captures 50 percent on the first data center and 60 percent on the second data center of total property taxes. That is far more than past Google deals for data centers in The Port of The Dalles, according to local officials.
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Click here to read our story on Google payment negotiations with the City of The Dalles and Wasco County.
Click here to see where the community service fee money will go.
Signing Bonus
Google’s company Design LLC will pay a one-time $3 million initial payment for each data center, payable within 60 days of submission of each data center building construction-in-process form for each project. If both are built, the total payment would be $6 million. The City and County will decide how the money will be spent.
That first payment could be made in months to come when the ground is broken on the new data center.
