{"id":967214,"date":"2025-10-10T10:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=967214"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:10:56","slug":"google-to-invest-e5-billion-in-ai-and-data-centres-in-belgium-creating-hundreds-of-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/10\/google-to-invest-e5-billion-in-ai-and-data-centres-in-belgium-creating-hundreds-of-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to invest \u20ac5 billion in AI and data centres in Belgium, creating hundreds of jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US tech giant Google has announced plans to invest \u20ac5 billion ($5.8 billion) in Belgium to expand its AI infrastructure and data centre network, creating hundreds of new jobs and supporting local economic growth. The investment will focus on the company\u2019s existing Saint-Ghislain site and the new Farciennes campus, with construction already underway. Google said the expansion will strengthen Belgium\u2019s role in Europe\u2019s cloud and AI sector, provide large-scale computing capacity powered by carbon-free energy, and create opportunities for local suppliers and contractors. Officials highlighted the move as a vote of confidence in Belgium\u2019s tech ecosystem and workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Google expands AI infrastructure and data centres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US tech giant Google has announced plans to invest \u20ac5 billion ($5.8 billion) in Belgium to expand its AI infrastructure and data centre network, creating hundreds of new jobs and supporting local economic growth. The investment will focus on the company\u2019s existing Saint-Ghislain site and the new Farciennes campus, with construction already underway. Google said the expansion will strengthen Belgium\u2019s role in Europe\u2019s cloud and AI sector, provide large-scale computing capacity powered by carbon-free energy, and create opportunities for local suppliers and contractors. Officials highlighted the move as a vote of confidence in Belgium\u2019s tech ecosystem and workforce. Google expands [&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-967214","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\/967214","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=967214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}