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Google To Spend $10 Billion on Offices, Data Centers in US This Year (cnet.com) 20

Google is continuing to expand beyond its home in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said Wednesday the company will invest more than $10 billion in offices and data centers across the US in 2020. From a report: "These investments will create thousands of jobs -- including roles within Google, construction jobs in data centers and renewable energy facilities, and opportunities in local businesses in surrounding towns and communities," Pichai said in a blog post. The search giant, which already has a presence in 26 states, said its new investments will be focused in 11 states: Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and California. This includes opening Google's new Hudson Square campus in New York City, which the company says gives it the ability to double its local workforce by 2028. Google also said its opening a new Google Operations Center in Mississippi to improve customer support for its users and partners.
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Google To Spend $10 Billion on Offices, Data Centers in US This Year

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  • by Jodka ( 520060 )

    Google is continuing to expand beyond its home in the San Francisco Bay Area...

    This could be preparation to partially exit the Bay Area. I fly out to their several times a year and get an earful from fellow passengers who live there about how much they hate it and want to leave. According to news reports, California and especially SF are devolving into anarcho-tyrany.

  • All the ads get tracked and consumers are detected buying products and services from the ads?
  • Really, these people are producing a whole lot of nothing, and chewing up resources.

  • "These investments will create thousands of jobs -- including roles within Google, construction jobs in data centers and renewable energy facilities, and opportunities in local businesses in surrounding towns and communities..."

    There was an initiative on housing...how far has this gone?

    Let's be mindful of the fact that some of these companies make announcements then do nothing!

    Let's evaluate first...

    • The announcement is likely to sugar coat something they want legislators to vote on in Googles favor. Happens all the time all over the place. When businesses talk about bringing jobs to an area there is very likely to be some quid pro quo going on there with legislators.

    • There was an initiative on housing...how far has this gone?

      Let's be mindful of the fact that some of these companies make announcements then do nothing!

      Let's evaluate first...

      A certain company's search engine could answer that [lmgtfy.com]....

      The short of it is, they're in the approvals process now; indended delivery is 2023-2030.

  • So, they got tired of stepping in shit on the city streets when they went to work. And they got even more tired of the city not doing jack to deal with the problem. And, the problem to be fixed is to find adequate housing for these people with bathrooms and showers. Then they can deal with the issue of what caused the homeless. And the tech giants also should be helping with this, because they are part of the problem by driving up the cost of housing.
  • by mccrew ( 62494 ) on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:36PM (#59769278)
    Like Aerospace and Defense companies, Google is getting more political cover by spreading jobs across more congressional districts. Now elected officials who might have taken a more hostile stance toward Google will now be more willing to offer protections for a company that provides good paying, high tech jobs in their district.
  • by ErichTheRed ( 39327 ) on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:57PM (#59769426)

    Back when IBM was at the height of its power, they spread out from their traditional home base of NYC and upstate NY, and set up shop in smaller cities. Obviously, Google going to Hudson Yards in NYC is not a cost-saving move, it's a hipster-collection operation. But in the other cases, it could be an IBM-style thing. They would open offices in university cities or close-to-university cities, just far away from HQ that the execs could drive or fly there in a few hours, but far enough from big cities so they controlled the techie labor market. Examples are Burlington, VT or Rochester, MN...far enough off the beaten track that they had their pick of the market.

    I think this makes sense. I live in suburban NYC and while I really like it here, it's expensive. I have to be very careful to maintain my skills to a point where I'm still worth employing at market rate to stay here. SF/Silicon Valley (and Seattle to a lesser extent) are a step above this, and I fully admit we have a big affordability problem in NY. Putting up a minimum of $1M for a house or making a stark choice of a multi-hour commute each direction or living with 10 other people in a house just doesn't appeal to me, and this is coming from someone who pays a lot of taxes and deals with high-cost everything.

    SF/SV may have a high concentration of tech talent, but that's less of a requirement if you drop the need for all those talented people to sit in the same team room staring at each other all day. After two Dotcom Bubbles, there are too many people who just don't even have to think about money anymore, and that drives the price up for people with normal jobs.

  • to fix/repair/drain a dam for Anderson lake in Silicon Valley (costs about $0.5B) but these SV companies have billions of extra cash (well not exactly but virtually a lot piled up in their basements). Anyway this what comes to my mind after reading this article "Feds order Santa Clara County’s biggest reservoir to be drained due to earthquake collapse risk" https://www.mercurynews.com/20... [mercurynews.com]
  • Google has been building its circus tent on Moffett Field for over two years, and biz jets go in and out a dozen times per day. But it has yet to spend one penny to fulfill its contractual agreement to restore Hangar One.

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