GOOGLE paid a council £88.2m for 52 acres (21 hectares) of land at a former RAF airbase, a report has shown reports the BBC.

Epping Forest District Council announced the sale of part of North Weald Airfield in Essex in late January to create a data centre campus.

A report prepared for a committee meeting showed the search engine giant paid about £1.7m an acre.

The figure had been “commercially sensitive” during negotiations, a council spokesman said.

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