Google CEO says it will spend $13B on U.S. expansion this year, with growth focused outside Bay Area


Google will spend more than $13 billion on U.S. data centers and offices in 2019, CEO Sundar Pichai said Wednesday, marking "the second year in a row we’ll be growing faster outside of the Bay Area than in it."

"These new investments will give us the capacity to hire tens of thousands of employees, and enable the creation of more than 10,000 new construction jobs in Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia," Pichai wrote in a blog post.

With the new investment, Google…

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