Google has dozens of real estate projects in the United States and says at least 20 key projects will receive investments of nearly $ 10 billion this year.
In a blog post Wednesday, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted offices and data centers across the country that are under construction or opening in 2022. Only California is working on construction and some homes in the Gulf region of San Francisco, including two large office buildings in Mountain View, near its headquarters, and several other office buildings in neighboring cities.
Pichai also said it expects to create at least 12,000 new full-time jobs at Google by the end of the year.
The total cost of investing nationwide in offices and data centers will be approximately $ 9.5 billion in the United States in 2022, the company said. That’s more than $ 7 billion and 10,000 new jobs announced last year.
The investment, many of which was under way before 2022, came when the company began returning employees to the office after two years of remote work during the Covid-19 pandemic. The policy for returning to the company’s office is that most employees come to their designated physical offices three days a week. Despite the rejection of some employees, the company welcomed its employees back with celebrations, including marching bands and prominent politicians.
As part of Google’s real estate projects in 2022, the company is advancing with a significant presence in San Jose, which approved Google’s plan for a mixed-use mega-campus that covers 80 acres and 7.3 million square feet of office space in the heart of the third largest city in California. To win over critics, Google has earmarked more than half of its public campus and proposed a $ 200 million social assistance package that includes resettlement funds, job training and empowering community leaders to influence how consumes.
A Google post on Wednesday said it had recently opened a new office in downtown Portland and said it was investing in a data center in Dulles, also in Oregon. It is also expanding its campuses in Kirkland and Seattle, Washington.
The company is also in the process of expanding its New York offices and upgrading its campuses in Cambridge and Pittsburgh, according to a blog post Wednesday. He opened a new office in Atlanta, Georgia this year and “made progress” in building a new office in downtown Austin, Texas, it said.