Google to invest $9.5b in US offices, datacenters
(2022/04/13)
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Google is betting big on the future of the office with $9.5 billion in investments planned for such facilities in 2022.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said as much in a [1]blog post , adding that Google plans to invest in new and existing datacenters as well as offices in the coming year. Pichai said that Google expects to create 12,000 new full-time Google jobs by the end of 2022. Over the past five years, Google said it has invested $37 billion in 26 US states, creating over 40,000 full-time jobs.
Google made the call to wind down pandemic-related remote work for its employees in [2]March when it announced it wanted people back on site at least three days a week beginning in early April. Pichai said physical office investment may seem counterintuitive in the current environment, but he restated Google's position that remote work isn't the future.
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"We believe it's more important than ever to invest in our campuses and that doing so will make for better products, a greater quality of life for our employees, and stronger communities," Pichai said.
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Google's economic impact report was released the same day as Pichai's blog, and he took the opportunity to share that Google provided $617 billion in economic activity for US businesses, while Android apps created two million jobs, and its video platform [5]YouTube supported 394,000 jobs in 2020.
Where to expect Google growth
Pichai had a sizeable list of office and datacenter plans for 2022 to discuss, including the following:
A new Atlanta office
Additional investments in its data center in Douglas County, Georgia
A new Austin, TX office
Additional investments in its Midlothian, TX data center
Continued data center investment in Tennessee
Continued data center investment in Virginia
Continued data center investment in Oklahoma
Continued data center investment in Iowa
Continued data center investment in Nebraska
New investments in New York offices
Improvements to Cambridge and Pittsburgh campuses
Continued construction at the Boulder, CO Google campus
A new office in Portland, OR
Continued data center investment in The Dalles, OR
New investments in Kirkland, WA campus
New investments in Seattle campus
A new datacenter in Storey County, Nevada stood up recently, and Google plans to expand it
Continued investment in Google's Henderson, Nevada facility
Google also said it plans to expand its presence in the Bay Area, including further investment in its [6]affordable housing commitment , the conditions for which - it [7]could [8]be [9]argued - Google helped create. ®
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[1] https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/investing-america-2022/
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/03/google_covid_office/
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[5] https://www.theregister.com/2006/10/06/google_youtube_talks/
[6] https://realestate.withgoogle.com/bay-housing/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2016/04/13/man_inhouse_box_home/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/palo_alto_insanity/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2015/09/03/apple_wagefixing_closed/
[10] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said as much in a [1]blog post , adding that Google plans to invest in new and existing datacenters as well as offices in the coming year. Pichai said that Google expects to create 12,000 new full-time Google jobs by the end of 2022. Over the past five years, Google said it has invested $37 billion in 26 US states, creating over 40,000 full-time jobs.
Google made the call to wind down pandemic-related remote work for its employees in [2]March when it announced it wanted people back on site at least three days a week beginning in early April. Pichai said physical office investment may seem counterintuitive in the current environment, but he restated Google's position that remote work isn't the future.
[3]
"We believe it's more important than ever to invest in our campuses and that doing so will make for better products, a greater quality of life for our employees, and stronger communities," Pichai said.
[4]
Google's economic impact report was released the same day as Pichai's blog, and he took the opportunity to share that Google provided $617 billion in economic activity for US businesses, while Android apps created two million jobs, and its video platform [5]YouTube supported 394,000 jobs in 2020.
Where to expect Google growth
Pichai had a sizeable list of office and datacenter plans for 2022 to discuss, including the following:
A new Atlanta office
Additional investments in its data center in Douglas County, Georgia
A new Austin, TX office
Additional investments in its Midlothian, TX data center
Continued data center investment in Tennessee
Continued data center investment in Virginia
Continued data center investment in Oklahoma
Continued data center investment in Iowa
Continued data center investment in Nebraska
New investments in New York offices
Improvements to Cambridge and Pittsburgh campuses
Continued construction at the Boulder, CO Google campus
A new office in Portland, OR
Continued data center investment in The Dalles, OR
New investments in Kirkland, WA campus
New investments in Seattle campus
A new datacenter in Storey County, Nevada stood up recently, and Google plans to expand it
Continued investment in Google's Henderson, Nevada facility
Google also said it plans to expand its presence in the Bay Area, including further investment in its [6]affordable housing commitment , the conditions for which - it [7]could [8]be [9]argued - Google helped create. ®
Get our [10]Tech Resources
[1] https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/investing-america-2022/
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/03/google_covid_office/
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_onprem/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2YlbzsXR1MoGAr5H6uwyt1QAAAAY&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[4] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_onprem/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YlbzsXR1MoGAr5H6uwyt1QAAAAY&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2006/10/06/google_youtube_talks/
[6] https://realestate.withgoogle.com/bay-housing/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2016/04/13/man_inhouse_box_home/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/palo_alto_insanity/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2015/09/03/apple_wagefixing_closed/
[10] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
"a greater quality of life for our employees"
Sorry Pichai, but I don't see how trudging to the office of a company that does not create or manipulate physical objects is improving my quality of life.
Now, I will admit that my only daughter is over 25 and working in Paris, so I don't have a gaggle of bawling, roudy offspring to distract me at my home office.
I also admit that I live in a house, not in an appartment surrounded by tenants who all think that the noise they make is quite acceptable.
Finally, I have a wife I love and who completely understands the words "I'm busy now".
Obviously, if one or more of these criteria is not met, I can understand that taking the daily commute to park oneself in an office might be more productive, but that is not my case.
I prefer the view of my front lawn, the bandwidth of my fiber connection and the absence of endless phone calls.