Then-Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley talks to the media on June 24, 2015 at Tennessee Valley Authority’s Widows Creek Fossil Plant about Google’s announcement that it would open a $600 million data center there.“Where’s Waldo?” is the U.S. version of a popular series of children’s books that got its start in 1987 in England.
“Where’s Google?” is a question that David Hughes, the mayor of Bridgeport, Alabama hears all the time.
“Everybody asks about it,” Hughes says.
Google has yet to start construction on a $600 million data processing center in Jackson County, Alabama, near the site of the now-shuttered Tennessee Valley Authority’s Widows Creek Fossil Plant.
It’s been two-and-a-half years since the surprise announcement that a superstar of Silicon Valley was investing in rural Alabama.