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BRIEF: Ohio city votes to give Amazon land for $1.1 billion data center [The Seattle Times](Seattle Times (WA) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Sept. 23--The city council in Dublin, Ohio, agreed Monday to transfer 68.7acres of city-owned land, worth $6.75 million, to an Amazon.com subsidiary in order to persuade the company to build a $1.1 billion data center. The city council in the Columbus suburb voted 6-0 to give the land to Vadata, a subsidiary of Amazon. If Amazon, which is expanding its Amazon Web Service business, accepts the land, it will build a data center that's at least 750,000 square-feet, according to an agreement with the city. Amazon has already won tax breaks from the Ohio Tax Credit Authority to build the data center for the division that rents data storage and computer-server time to corporations. According to public filings with the tax agency, Vadata agreed to make "a capital investment of at least $1,110,000,000 during the 3-year investment period starting on August 25, 2014." Amazon declined to comment on the Dublin vote or its plans for building a data center in Ohio. Jay Greene: 206-464-2231 or [email protected]. Twitter @greene ___ (c)2014 The Seattle Times Visit The Seattle Times at www.seattletimes.com Distributed by MCT Information Services |