Google’s sustainable data center will be built in Hertfordshire
Google has revealed plans to construct a brand new data center in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, UK, as part of its ongoing commitment to increase the compute power that underpins many of its products.
The 33-acre site, which Google bought in October 2020, will be used to power digital services including Google Cloud, Search, Maps, and Google Workspace, which includes the company’s free office apps and Gmail.
The investment, which is said to be worth $1 billion (£789 million), is hoped to bring a flush of new jobs to the area as well as help the UK’s economy more broadly. Google already employs around 7,000 workers in the UK.Google’s $1bn data center will be built in Hertfordshire, UK
Ruth Porat, Alphabet and Google’s CFO, emphasized the pivotal role of data centers in powering widely used services such as Google Workspace.
