Google will invest more than $13 billion throughout 2019 in data centers across the U.S., Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a Feb. 13 blog post.
The tech giant plans to expand offices in 14 states, including Nevada, Ohio, Texas and Virginia. The new construction projects will expand Google's presence to 24 states, with data centers located in 13 of them.
"This growth will allow us to invest in the communities where we operate, while we improve the products and services that help billions of people and businesses globally," Mr. Pichai wrote in the post. "Our new data center investments, in particular, will enhance our ability to provide the fastest and most reliable services for all our users and customers"
The investment announcement comes after Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian revealed plans to ramp up the company's cloud strategy.
"We are hiring some of the best talent from around the industry to grow our sales organization, and you will see us competing much more aggressively as we go forward," he said at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco Feb. 12.
Google Cloud's two main competitors, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, have also been expanding their services.