In a major move announced on Friday, Alphabet-owned Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) revealed plans to inject a staggering $40 billion into the construction of three brand-new, state-of-the-art data centers across Texas – all designed to fuel the company’s rapidly growing artificial intelligence ambitions.
The massive multi-year commitment, set to roll out progressively through 2027, highlights just how fierce the race has become among tech giants and cloud providers to secure the physical infrastructure needed to train and run tomorrow’s most powerful AI systems.