Water vapor billows from cooling towers at Google's data center at The Dalles in Oregon. Photo courtesy of Google.
Water vapor billows from cooling towers at Google's data center at The Dalles in Oregon. Photo courtesy of Google.

Whiting-Turner Contracting Company of Towson has been selected to build a $600 million data center in Oregon for a subsidiary of Google, according to constructiondive.com.

Design LLC is the Google subsidiary that chose Whiting-Turner to build the data center in Wasco County, Oregon. The 290,000-square-foot facility will be added to an existing complex that Google has in the area, known as The Dalles Google Data Center.

Ed Gunts is a local freelance writer and the former architecture critic for The Baltimore Sun.