Google to spend additional 1 billion Euros to build Dutch data centres
The two sites will employ around 500 people once they are built.
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google said on Monday it will invest an additional 1 billion euros ($1.14 billion) to build data centres in the Netherlands, including a new facility in Middenmeer.
The company had previously said it is spending 1.5 billion euros to build and then expand a data centre currently under construction in Eemshaven, Netherlands.
On a call with reporters, Joe Kava, Google’s chief of data centres, said the two sites will employ around 500 people once they are built.
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