The company said the money will go toward expanding offices and data centers across 19 states, creating what will amount to at least 10,000 full-time jobs. Some $1 billion will go specifically toward California.
“Coming together in person to collaborate and build community is core to Google’s culture, and it will continue to be an important part of our future,” CEO Sundar Pichai said in an blog post Thursday. “So we continue to make significant investments in our offices around the country, as well as our home state of California, where we will be investing over $1 billion this year.”
Google parent company Alphabet paused its real estate spending last year in the wake of the pandemic and Google’s first-ever year-on-year revenue decline in the second quarter of last year.
The company plans to return workers to offices beginning this fall. Pichai previously said Google wouldn’t adopt a permanent remote work plan, expecting most employees to show up to assigned offices three days a week starting in September.
The company is planning on opening new offices in Seattle, Houston and Mississippi. It’s in the process of planning several, massive ground-up developments in various cities, including near its headquarters in Mountain View, California, where it is incorporating housing.