Google has plans to invest $3.3 billion during the next two years to expand its server farms across Europe.
The new data center investment is in addition to the $7 billion the company has invested since 2007 in the European Union.
As part of the new investment, Google plans to invest another $660 million in 2020 to expand the firm's data center presence in Hamina, Finland, bringing the total investment by Google to $2.2 billion since 2009. The investments will support approximately 4,300 jobs in Finland per year on average, over the next two years and beyond.
The Hamina data center is a significant driver of economic growth and opportunity. It also serves as a model of sustainability and energy efficiency for all of Google's data centers.
Nearly half of the megawatts produced will be in Europe, through the launch of 10 renewable energy projects. These agreements will spur the construction of more than $1.1 billion in new energy infrastructure in the European Union, ranging from a new offshore wind project in Belgium, to five solar energy projects in Denmark, and two wind energy projects in Sweden. In Finland, Google is committing to two new wind energy projects that will more than double our renewable energy capacity in the country.
