(The Center Square) – Google on Friday announced its largest investment in any state in the country: $40 billion in Texas to build AI infrastructure, including data centers.
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai joined Gov. Greg Abbott in Midlothian on Friday to make the announcement. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy James Danly, Google Global Head of Data Center Energy Amanda Peterson Corio, and other Google leaders and state officials also attended.
The investment is part of Google’s “Investing in America” initiative, designed to boost cloud and AI infrastructure, build data center facilities, develop programs to strengthen energy capacity and affordability, and expand workforce training in the state…