Alphabet announcing $3B in investments in data centers in Virginia and Indiana

Ruth Porat, President & Chief Investment Officer; Chief Financial Officer, Alphabet & Google, said in a blog post: “Google is announcing $3 billion in investments to build or expand our data center campuses in Virginia and Indiana. Virginia: We’re investing an additional $1 billion, with plans to expand our three existing Virginia data center campuses – bringing our total investment to date in the state to more than $4 billion. Indiana: In the Midwest, we announced a $2 billion investment in our newest data center campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana.” Google is also announcing a $75M Google AI Opportunity Fund, made possible with support from Google.org, its philanthropic arm, Porat said. “Through this fund, Google.org will work with nonprofit, education, and other sectors to train one million Americans of all backgrounds and provide them with AI skills at no cost. Alongside the fund, today we are launching the Google AI Essentials course, built by Grow with Google and AI experts from Google’s Research, Technology & Society team and across the company. The course will help teach foundational skills to workers and allow participants to gain essential AI skills to apply in their daily life,” the blog post stated.