Google cuts US jobs and investment target to $7bn
Company to focus on offices and data centres as Google Cloud reports $1.2bn loss in the fourth quarter
18 March 2021 - 17:26
Google announced a $7bn investment in the US that will create at least 10,000 new jobs in 2021, a drop from the $10bn it promised it would invest in 2020 before the pandemic swept the country.
The Alphabet unit is investing in offices and data centres, including more than $1bn in its home state of California, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a statement on Thursday. Part of the investment will be used for data centre expansions in Nebraska, South Carolina, Virginia, Nevada and Texas, Pichai said...
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