This year, including a large campus in New York City, the Tech Titan announced on Thursday that Google plans to spend more than $ 7 billion while expanding its offices and data centers.
CEO Sundar Pichai said that investing in Google’s facilities would create at least 10,000 new full-time jobs in Silicon Valley, along with hiring one.
Google’s physical expansion will span 19 states, with offices and data centers that help the company’s signature search engine and digital services such as email, map and photo storage.
One of them is New York, where it plans to invest more than $ 250 million this year as it builds its office presence in Manhattan.
Google plans to eventually occupy more than 1.7 million square feet of space in the Hudson Square neighborhood of the West Side, where it is currently building an addition at 550 Washington St. that will be occupied by 2023.
Google has an office in the city under construction at Pier 57, where it will occupy a campus of about 320,000 square feet that will also include an event center and retail space, the company says.
Google says its expansion will help increase macroeconomic impact across the country.
The company claimed its search engine, advertising tools and the Google Play App Store provided $ 426 billion in economic activity last year, including about $ 70 billion in New York, out of more than 84,000 full-time employees 11,000 is Google’s home.
“Not only will these investments enable us to create new opportunities in the places where we work; Pichai said that they make it possible to provide products and services that help promote economic recovery blog post.
But Google’s offices may not be completed in a later year. The company reportedly told employees in December that they would not return to office until September, as the coronovirus epidemic would begin.
Shares of Google’s parent company Alphabet fell 1.3 percent to $ 2,055.19 as of 10:18 a.m. Thursday.
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