Google Commits $13 Billion to U.S. Data Centers and Offices
Google plans to spend $13 billion on U.S. infrastructure in 2019, significantly increasing its footprint to compete with AWS and Azure. The massive investment focuses heavily on new and expanded data centers in middle America.
Google announces a massive $13 billion investment in U.S. data centers and offices for 2019, marking a significant increase from the $9 billion spent the previous year. The company focuses heavily on expanding its physical footprint across states like Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Virginia. Alongside these new regional data centers, Google continues to upgrade its existing office spaces in major hubs such as Seattle, Chicago, New York, and California.
This aggressive expansion directly supports Google's ongoing push to capture more enterprise customers in the highly competitive cloud computing market. By opening its first data centers in Nevada, Nebraska, Ohio, and Texas, the tech giant actively builds the infrastructure necessary to rival AWS and Microsoft Azure. CEO Sundar Pichai notes that 2019 represents the second consecutive year where Google grows faster outside of the Bay Area than inside it.
The company emphasizes that this financial commitment creates over 10,000 new construction jobs and provides the capacity to hire tens of thousands of additional employees. Highlighting job creation in Middle America serves as a strategic move amid current political backlash against major technology companies. However, critics point out that while construction roles are temporary, operational data centers ultimately require very few permanent human employees to function.