Alphabet-owned Google said on Thursday it would invest $1 billion in a data centre in the United Kingdom, which would expand the company’s presence in the key market.
The data centre will be located on a 33-acre site in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire which Google purchased in October 2020.
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“This new data centre will help meet growing demand for our AI and cloud services,” said the company’s finance chief Ruth Porat.
Google already has a presence in the region with offices under development in Saint Giles and Kings Cross. It also has a research collaboration with the University of Cambridge.
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