{"id":1014916,"date":"2026-06-16T11:28:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014916"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:58:45","slug":"google-to-invest-1-5-billion-in-alabama-data-center-expansion-launches-new-community-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/google-to-invest-1-5-billion-in-alabama-data-center-expansion-launches-new-community-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to invest $1.5 billion in Alabama data center expansion, launches new community programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced a new $1.5 billion investment in Alabama, expanding its data center operations in Jackson County while launching new programs focused on energy affordability, education and workforce development. The investment will be spread across 2026 and 2027 and is aimed at increasing the company&#8217;s infrastructure capacity in the region. Alongside the expansion, Google unveiled a $2 million fund to help lower energy costs for local families and a $550,000 initiative to support STEM education in schools. The company said the move builds on its long-term presence in Alabama, where it has operated a data center campus since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Google commits $1.5 billion to Alabama data center expansion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced a new $1.5 billion investment in Alabama, expanding its data center operations in Jackson County while launching new programs focused on energy affordability, education and workforce development. The investment will be spread across 2026 and 2027 and is aimed at increasing the company&#8217;s infrastructure capacity in the region. Alongside the expansion, Google unveiled a $2 million fund to help lower energy costs for local families and a $550,000 initiative to support STEM education in schools. The company said the move builds on its long-term presence in Alabama, where it has operated a data center campus since 2019. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014917,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014916\/revisions\/1014917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}