County commissioners in Butte last week approved a 600 acre land sale to a company aiming to build a large data center.

Butte-Silver Bow will get over a million dollars for the land. Sabey Data Centers, a Washington state company, is making the purchase.

A data center is a large warehouse of computer servers companies use for remote storage.

Kristen Rosa is Butte’s Economic Development Coordinator. She told commissioners the project had been thoroughly vetted by local officials and that the county has a provision to reacquire the land if Sabey’s plans fail to materialize.