Google is betting big on Nevada as the company pledged to invest several hundred million dollars on its tech infrastructure in the Silver State.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based tech company announced on Tuesday that it plans to beef up its cloud and data center infrastructure in the state by investing more than $400 million this year. The announcement was made during an event at the University of Nevada, Reno.
One of the areas that will benefit from the investment is Storey County, which houses a Google data center just east of Reno-Sparks . Also benefiting is Clark County, location of the company’s Las Vegas cloud region.
Google’s Nevada facilities play an important role in supporting the company’s services, including Google Cloud, artificial intelligence, Maps and its bread-and-butter Google search, according to the company. In 2020, the company also announced that it will invest $600 million on its data center at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center and another $600 million on its Henderson data center in Southern Nevada.