CALIFORNIA (GNB): Google announced Thursday that it plans to invest over $7 billion in new offices and data centers in 2021, as it looks to business operations post-pandemic. The projects will span 19 states and will create at least 10,000 new full-time jobs across 19 states this year.
Part of the $7 billion investment includes $1 billion toward offices in Google’s home state of California. Google will also grow its offices in Atlanta, Washington DC, Chicago, and New York, Pichai said.
The expenditures will target new locations for Google and expansions of existing facilities as the technology company seeks to play a part in what Sundar Pichai, CEO of Mountain View, Calif.-based Google and parent company Alphabet, sees as a “lasting” economic recovery for the United States that will come from local communities and small businesses following a year upset by the global coronavirus pandemic.
“Not only will these investments enable us to create new opportunities in the places where we operate, they’ll also make it possible to provide products and services that help boost economic recovery,” Pichai said in a blog post today.
Google has more than 84,000 full-time employees in the United States and has data centers and offices in 26 states, according to the company.
Last year, Google Search, Google Play, YouTube and Google advertising tools helped provide $426 billion of economic activity for more than 2 million American businesses, nonprofits, publishers, creators and developers, according to Google’s 2020 U.S. Economic Impact Report released today.
Google is expanding data centers in Nebraska, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas and Loudon County, Virginia. Its $600 million-plus data center in Papillion, Nebraska, will be fully up and running this year, along with its $600 million data center in New Albany, Ohio, and another $600 million data center in Midlothian, Texas. Development of all three sites started in 2019. In Henderson, Nev.,
Google’s second $600 million data center went online in February, and the company said it would expand that data center and another in Storey County, Nev., this year.
“Our data centers are what powers your searches, emails, photos and the maps that help you find the fastest way home,” Pichai said. “They’re also important to the fabric of local communities, from providing opportunities for supply chain partners and small businesses to supporting distance learning in South Carolina and Nevada.”
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