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(The Center Square) – Google on Friday announced its largest investment in any state in the country: $40 billion in Texas to build AI infrastructure, including data centers.
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai joined Gov. Greg Abbott in Midlothian on Friday to make the announcement. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy James Danly, Google Global Head of Data Center Energy Amanda Peterson Corio, and other Google leaders and state officials also attended.
The investment is part of Google’s “Investing in America” initiative, designed to boost cloud and AI infrastructure, build data center facilities, develop programs to strengthen energy capacity and affordability, and expand workforce training in the state.
“This is a Texas-sized investment in the future of our great state,” Abbott said. “Texas is the epicenter of AI development, where companies can pair innovation with expanding energy. Google’s $40 billion investment makes Texas Google’s largest investment in any state in the country and supports energy efficiency and workforce development in our state. We must ensure that America remains at the forefront of the AI revolution, and Texas is the place where that can happen.”
“They say that everything is bigger in Texas – and that certainly applies to the golden opportunity with AI,” Pichai said. “The $40
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