Google ready to detail community investments for rural Missouri data center

Google said it is ready to outline community investments and infrastructure commitments tied to a data center project the tech giant plans in rural Missouri, about an hour from St. Louis.

Google said it will make an announcement next week about its planned investment in Montgomery County, marking a key milestone for the second massive data center planned in the county, west of St. Louis. The project would be located next to a site where Amazon previously committed to building a $35 billion data center.

Montgomery County officials have been working with Google on a proposed data center campus known as “Project Spade,” a large-scale development planned on more than 900 acres near the Interstate 70 and Highway 19 interchange. Materials published by Montgomery County describe a multi-building data center campus designed with closed-loop, non-evaporative air cooling technology intended to limit water use and reduce environmental impact. Data centers, including…