{"id":6775,"date":"2026-04-04T21:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/city-of-palo-responds-after-records-show-citys-involvement-with-google-on-proposed-data-center-kcrg\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:57:54","slug":"city-of-palo-responds-after-records-show-citys-involvement-with-google-on-proposed-data-center-kcrg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/city-of-palo-responds-after-records-show-citys-involvement-with-google-on-proposed-data-center-kcrg\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Palo responds after records show city\u2019s involvement with Google on proposed data center – KCRG"},"content":{"rendered":"

PALO, Iowa (KCRG) – The city of Palo is responding after documents obtained through an open records<\/a> request show Palo city leaders worked with Google for months on a proposed data center annexation, despite public statements suggesting limited involvement in the project.
At a public information meeting last week, Mayor Brian Busch said the city was still learning about the project and promised transparency.
But public documents show Palo approved an agreement in December for Google to cover the city\u2019s costs to study what is called \u201cProject Meridian.\u201d A separate invoice notes legal services in January tied to a \u201cGoogle Annexation Project.\u201d City leaders began meeting regularly with Google in February.
In a statement, the city said, \u201cPalo has been aware of the project since the very beginning \u2014 but serious annexation discussions did not begin until Google approached the City of Palo requesting that change. Until that moment, Linn County was the lead entity, and we supported their process just as any good neighbor would.”
Read the city\u2019s full statement below:
City of Palo Statement 4.4.26 <\/a> by ebschrad97 <\/a>
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PALO, Iowa (KCRG) – The city of Palo is responding after documents obtained through an open records request show Palo city leaders worked with Google for months on a proposed data center annexation, despite public statements suggesting limited involvement in the project. At a public information meeting last week, Mayor Brian Busch said the city […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}