- We in the countryside go in times of waiting, says Bengt Holmertz, chairman of the Horndal group that works for the town's future.  

Horndal is a former mill in Avesta municipality in southern Dalarna.

When the ironworks was closed down about 40 years ago, around 1,700 people lived here - 1,100 still live.  

Three years ago, it became official that Google bought land that corresponds to the surface of more than 100 football fields on the outskirts of the resort.

Speculation that a large IT company was interested in the town had been simmering for a few years, but the land purchase became the real starting point for the hope that now exists in the area. 

- Most people are probably very positive about it.

They believe that it will generate jobs and that it will be expanded here, but I do not believe that, says Horndalsbon Eva Lindmark. 

"If it happens, it will be really good"

It is, among other things, Sweden's infrastructure for fossil-free energy and fiber that attracts the IT giants.

And access to land. 

In January this year, Google submitted an application for an environmental permit to the Land and Environmental Court via the company DSC Interational.

It states that Google, among other things, wants to build five large server halls.  

Avesta municipality has been working to row this establishment ashore for over five years.  

- If it happens, it will be really, really good, says Municipal Councilor Lars Isacsson (S).

No decision to build yet

But Google has not yet made a business decision to build.

The company's communications manager Joakim Larsson writes to SVT: 

“Preparatory work is currently underway on the ground to ensure that we have the opportunity to build and develop our data center presence in Europe, should our operations require it.

No decision is expected in the near future. "

Server halls require a lot of manpower during construction.

Once in place not as much.

According to Facebook's communications manager Lukasz Lindell, 350 people currently work at the data center in Luleå.  

- 58 of them are employed by Facebook, Lindell says.  

In the clip, you see Lars Isacsson, municipal councilor, dreaming about the planned data center in Horndal.