Google plans to invest $2 billion to build a data center in northeast Indiana that will help power its artificial intelligence technology and cloud business, company and state officials said Friday.
A data center planned for Fort Wayne was announced in January. However, Google disclosed the cost of the project on Friday and said it is expected to create up to 200 new jobs, including data center technicians and support services, the Journal Gazette reported.
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The city’s data center, about 190 miles northeast of Indianapolis, will help fuel Google’s “AI innovation and growth of the Google Cloud business for customers around the world,” Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office said in a news release. mentioned in.
Google headquarters is pictured in Mountain View, California. (Photographer: Malena Sloss/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Google says the new data center will join a network of Google-owned and operated data centers around the world that “keep the internet running” and power digital services like Google Cloud, Gmail, Search, Maps, and more. It is said that it will become.
“Together, Fort Wayne and Google will power our digital future, including AI innovation across enterprise and consumer services,” said Joe Cava, vice president of data centers at Google. Ta.
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Friday’s announcement comes as Amazon’s cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services will invest $11 billion to build a data center in northern Indiana near the town of New Carlisle, about 25 miles west of South Bend. It was held the day after announcing plans to do so. The project is expected to create at least 1,000 jobs.
