Google may be coming here to Mayes County Ok.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070406_1_A1_hAdat63056


By JOHN DOBBERSTEIN World Staff Writer



A data center for the search engine company may find its way to Mayes County


Internet giant Google Inc. confirmed Thursday that the company is considering plans to build a data center at MidAmerica Industrial Park near Pryor.

Google officials would not provide details of the proposal or say how likely it is for the project to go forward. They also would not comment on the potential cost of the project or the number of jobs that could be created.

"We're evaluating this exciting opportunity but have not announced our decision or made final plans," Google spokesman Ricardo Reyes said in a prepared statement.

About 800 acres, which is south of the massive Gatorade plant that is under construction in the park, was sold recently by the Oklahoma Ordnance Works Authority to Myall LLC, a limited liability company based in Wilmington, Del. Myall registered as a business entity with the Oklahoma secretary of state in November.

it's going to be a pretty expensive trade-off to have them here.

http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/540905.html

The cost of wooing Google to the state's foothills could far exceed initial estimates, with tax breaks and other public incentives potentially reaching $260 million.

City and county leaders waived 100 percent of Google's business property taxes and 80 percent of its real estate taxes for 30 years to get the operation. But they have not publicly disclosed how much revenue the breaks could cause them to forgo.

The new records give the first indication: $165 million over three decades. That figure, included in a document filed on behalf of Caldwell County but challenged by one county official, is in addition to tax breaks and grants approved by the state that could reach $94 million during the same period. Initial estimates of the incentives package were based on that state figure.

And more public money could go to the project. The Department of Transportation has estimated it will spend $700,000 on road work near the Google site. The county wants $222,550 from another pot of public funds to offset the expense of preparing the location.

this location is a mile down the road from here where we live. I have lots of hope that they will relocate here as they will be for the most part a clean, eviromentally speaking, operation.

support their server farms. I personally think NC paid a mighty steep price for those 200 or so jobs coming to Lenoir, but have to wait and see if it's really the economic bonanza everyone thinks it will be.

and about 30 miles away is another coal plant.
My little corner of the world is definitely going to get much more crowded with these new plants proposed for here if it pans out. I don't know whether to be glad or sad but some good clean high paying jobs would be great though.