Google’s Response to an Iowa County’s New Data Center Requirements? Annex the Land.

Google is seeking to bypass data center zoning rules recently adopted by Linn County, Iowa, by annexing the land for its proposed campus into the nearby city of Palo. This would free Google from the water-use and economic agreements that Linn County developed for unincorporated areas. The county has criticized this move as "fundamentally wrong" and says Google is trying to get a local government to "ask for less" than the county's requirements.