Google aims to invest $ 9.5 billion in offices and data centers in the United States, up from 7 billion in 2021. New branches and larger structures, which should lead to an increase in American staff of 12 thousand units.
Google will invest $ 9.5 billion in US offices and data centers
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, announced today (Wednesday 13/04) that it intends to invest increasing the number of American employees by the end of the year. According to the company’s calculations, they will be 12 thousand jobs created, thanks to real estate investments that will expand the capabilities of the online search giant.
According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, Google should open a new office ad Atlantaincrease its presence in the New York office. Also it should build a campus in Boulder in Colorado and several data center all over the country.
The CEO Sundar Pichai he explained that “it might seem counterintuitive to increase our investment in offices as we transform work to be more flexible. But we believe it is important to invest more than ever in our campuses and by doing so we will build better products ”. Furthermore, the investment should make it possible to “improve the quality of life for our employees and form stronger communities “.
For the past five years, Google has invested over 37 billion dollars to build offices and data centers in 26 US states. Just last year he had bought a building on the West Side of Manhattan for 2.1 billion dollarsthe largest single-property investment.
The investments will increase the number of Google employees, which in 2020 amounted to more than 135,000.
Source
The Wall Street Journal