COPENHAGEN,
Denmark (AP) — Google’s top boss said Friday the tech giant is planning
to invest 3 billion euros to expand its data centers across Europe in
the next two years.
Chief executive Sundar
Pichai says it will bring the company’s total investments in the
continent’s internet infrastructure to 15 billion euros since 2007.
Pichai
met with Finnish Prime Minister Antii Rinne on Friday in Helsinki and
said the investments will support 13,000 full-time jobs in the European
Union every year.
He also noted that Google
is investing heavily in renewable energy, an initiative announced ahead
of global rallies calling for action to guard against climate change.
Employees at Google and other big U.S. tech companies such as Amazon and
Microsoft planned to participate in the “global climate strike” Friday.
The
Google project will include the construction of more than 1 billion
euros in new energy infrastructure in the EU, among them a new offshore
wind project in Belgium, five solar energy projects in Denmark, and two
wind energy projects in each Sweden and Finland. There are also projects
in the U.S. and South America.
Pichai said
that once these projects come online, Google’s carbon-free energy
portfolio will produce more electricity than places like Washington D.C.
or entire countries like Lithuania or Uruguay use each year.
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