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financial news agency, september 27 (editor zhou ziyi)according to the latest news from alphabet’s google, the company plans to invest us$3.3 billion in south carolina, usa, to expand its data center and cloud infrastructure.

google ceo sundar pichai announced on thursday (september 26), "we will invest $3.3 billion in south carolina to build two new data centers and expand our cloud and data centers. infrastructure, create local jobs and support economic activity.”

it is reported that two new data centers will be built in dorchester county northwest of charleston. google will invest us$2 billion in these two projects; in addition, google will spend us$1.3 billion to expand its data center in berkeley county. center.

dorchester county county council chairman todd friddie praised google's move as "the right decision" and "it brings a lot of tax dollars to our school district and county." friddie also said that construction of the two new centers will take one year to 18 months and is expected to create 200 new operational jobs.

currently, south carolina is part of google cloud’s global network of 40 regions, which in total covers more than 200 countries and regions.

the investment in data centers is part of alphabet's larger commitment to building out infrastructure, which was reflected in google's july report. ceo pichai pointed out at the time, "we are in the early stages of what i think are very transformative areas and technologies, and the risk of underinvesting for us is much greater than the risk of us overinvesting here."

at that time, google also announced that its capital expenditures in the second quarter would reach us$13 billion, and it expected that its quarterly capital expenditures in the remaining two quarters of this year would reach or exceed us$12 billion.

on thursday, audrey van belleghem, google's director of global data center strategy and operations, noted that these investments in south carolina demonstrate google's long-term commitment to the region.

according to statista, amazon web services (aws) leads all cloud infrastructure service providers with a 31% market share, followed by microsoft's azure with 25% and google cloud with 11%.