Google Will Spend $13 Billion On US Real Estate In 2019 (cnbc.com) 23
In a blog post today, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company is building new data centers and offices and expanding several key locations across the U.S., spending $13 billion this year. CNBC reports: Pichai outlined the plans, which include opening new data centers in Nevada, Ohio, Texas and Nebraska, the first time the company will have infrastructure locations in those states. The company is also doubling its workforce in Virginia, providing greater access to Washington, D.C., with a new office and more data center space, and expanding its New York campus at Hudson Square.
Google is showing its willingness to further open its wallet, after a year in which capital spending more than doubled to $25.46 billion. The company didn't say home much each location will cost or provide information on tax incentives from local communities. Pichai said the plans will likely create tens of thousands of construction jobs across Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Texas and Virginia, as well as Oklahoma and South Carolina, where the company is expanding existing data centers. Google didn't say how many new jobs the data centers and business offices would create. Pichai also said that the company is adding new office buildings in Texas and Massachusetts, building out more space in Illinois, Wisconsin, Washington state and Georgia, and redeveloping California locations near Los Angeles and in the Bay Area, including the Westside Pavillion and Spruce Goose Hangar.
Google is showing its willingness to further open its wallet, after a year in which capital spending more than doubled to $25.46 billion. The company didn't say home much each location will cost or provide information on tax incentives from local communities. Pichai said the plans will likely create tens of thousands of construction jobs across Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Texas and Virginia, as well as Oklahoma and South Carolina, where the company is expanding existing data centers. Google didn't say how many new jobs the data centers and business offices would create. Pichai also said that the company is adding new office buildings in Texas and Massachusetts, building out more space in Illinois, Wisconsin, Washington state and Georgia, and redeveloping California locations near Los Angeles and in the Bay Area, including the Westside Pavillion and Spruce Goose Hangar.
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As the rest of the world becomes more privacy conscious and legislating along those lines so the mass privacy invader iis shifting data storage to the US where is can lobby total invasion of privacy and citizens have no right to their digital life and Google is blessed by God to enslave it.
Surprise, surprise, surprise, Google shifts it's servers to the country that lets respects the privacy of it's citizens, let alone other countries citizens.
I am smelling the failure of Google, the stench is getting stro
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People more important than the places? (Score:2)
Other places were mentioned, too, but initially I was most impressed by the number of new employees the google wants to hire. Then I went back to consider where. Why do I smell some sort of propaganda offensive over technical considerations? Or maybe you have a more substantive interpretation? Why does the google want more human baggage?
I feel like I need to clarify that I believe corporate cancers like the google really hate to hire human beings. Real estate speculations might be more attractive, but human
Is it enough though? (Score:1)
Finally they might be able to buy a condo in Sunnyvale.