— This investment will create thousands of jobs, provide skills training to college students and electrical apprentices, and accelerate energy affordability initiatives throughout Texas, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said, according to Reuters.
The investments will be made through 2027, but Google says nothing of when they will come online.
They will also bring new funding for the power grid to support 6 gigawatts of «new energy generation and capacity» and will support some 1,700 new electrical apprenticeships with Google support.
This makes Texas the second largest data center state in the USA, after Virginia, notes the Texas Tribune.
— They say that everything is bigger in Texas — and that certainly applies to the golden opportunity with AI, Pichai said.
Read more: Google’s blog, writeups on Reuters, Texas Tribune.