Money, morality and business deals

Money, morality and business deals

A long-time local resident, and former member of our county government, sat down at my breakfast table recently. He wanted to talk about the recently-aborted data center deal between Data Knight 365 and Floyd County’s Economic Development Authority (EDA)....
Checkmate on Data Knight 365

Checkmate on Data Knight 365

Data Knight 365 (DK3), the data services company that really wasn’t one, defaulted Wednesday on the controversial deal to purchase 51.5 acres of undeveloped land in Floyd County’s Commerce Park for a data center plan that existed only in the grandiose...

Data Knight 365 and Floyd County: How much more?

As my story in today’s Floyd Press reports, the county’s Economic Development Authority (EDA) Tuesday approved issuing a formal “final demand for closing” for the twice-aborted sale of 51.5 acres of undeveloped land in the largely-empty...
The Data Knight 365 soap opera continues

The Data Knight 365 soap opera continues

The proposed location for a data center at Floyd County’s Commerce Park To the suprise of some, Data Knight 365, on the last day of a deadline, delivered a set of documents required for closing on a deal to purchase 51.5 acres of land in Floyd County’s...

A lack of data from a data center company

Floyd County officials are moving to resolve, one way or another, the controversial proposed data center project in the Commerce Park on Christiansburg Pike. Details of decisions made in an hour-long closed-door session of the Economic Development Authority have not...