A state agency signed a $6.7 million land deal with a Silicon Valley company building a data center in Salem about two months after the city signed a non-disclosure agreement with the company. The deal for a crucial piece of ground for the over $5 billion project came more than a year before city officials made public that a Google-backed company called Verrus was coming to town. Gov. Tina Kotek has since directed her agency…Continue reading — subscribe to unlock the full article. ...read more read less