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Google invests US$1 billion to build new UK data centre
19 January 2024
Google has announced a US$1 billion investment in a new UK data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire.
The 33-acre (13.4-hectare) site will support the technical infrastructure the search company needs as it develops new AI-powered technologies and powers services like search, Maps, YouTube, and Google Cloud.
Separately, Google has a goal to run all of its data centres and campuses on carbon-free energy by 2030.
As part of that, in 2022 it announced a power purchase agreement with ENGIE for offshore wind energy generated by the Moray West wind farm in Scotland.
The agreement will add 100 MW of energy to the grid, and put Google’s UK operations on track to operate at or near 90% carbon-free energy in 2025.
Google’s latest investment comes after the $1bn purchase of its Central Saint Giles office in 2022, the 1 million sq ft. development in King’s Cross, London.
In 2021, it also laid a new subsea cable — Grace Hopper — which connects the United Kingdom with the United States and Spain.
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