Water Authority Prepares Key Vote on Potential Data Center, After Botetourt Spent Months Wooing 'Project Raspberry'

Water Authority Prepares Key Vote on Potential Data Center, After Botetourt Spent Months Wooing 'Project Raspberry'

Western Virginia Water Authority's board is preparing to vote on a plan to bring water to Botetourt’s industrial park for a potential Google data center. Roanoke leaders say such a project could eventually require as much as 8 million gallons of water daily, initially drawn from Carvins Cove, as seen above. ROANOKE RAMBLER FILE PHOTOPublic bodies are preparing Wednesday to front-load as much as $300 million to secure a potential Google data cent…