Google investing nearly $1 billion this year in Nebraska at its three data centers
LINCOLN — Google on Monday announced that it will invest an additional $930 million across its three data center campuses in Nebraska, including the one under construction in Lincoln.
Karen Dahut, CEO of Google Public Sector, said the additional investment will bring Google’s total investment in Nebraska to more than $4.4 billion.
She was joined for the announcement at Innovation Campus in Lincoln by Sen. Pete Ricketts, Rep. Don Bacon, University of Nebraska President Jeffrey Gold and Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird.
Dahut also announced that the company will donate $250,000 to the University of Nebraska system to support research into artificial intelligence on its various campuses.
Gaylor Baird also announced that Google will donate $100,000 to the Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools to help fund the Spark Summer Learning program, which is a hands-on summer camp focusing on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) for Lincoln-area elementary students.
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Google has previously said the data center under construction on about 600 acres of land northwest of the 56th Street exit on Interstate 80, will employ at least 30 people. The company has applied for $600 million in state tax incentives for the project and plans it submitted to the city indicate it could eventually grow to 2 million square feet of space if fully built out.
Google’s other Nebraska data centers are both in the Omaha area. It also has a data center across the river in Council Bluffs.
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