Governor Patrick Morrisey announced on Friday, March 27, that Google has purchased land near Buffalo in Putnam County and has received approval for a multibillion-dollar High Impact Development Project. The project is a data center.

Google data centers exist for the purpose of profit. Google profits by providing products like Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive, Docs, and more), Google Cloud, Search, and YouTube for billions of people around the world. Data centers need massive amounts of…