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    Google invests £790m in first UK data centre

    by Holly Williams Jan 18, 2024 3 minutes

    Google has unveiled a one billion US dollar (£790 million) investment in its first UK data centre, hailed by the Government as a “huge vote of confidence in Britain”.

    The tech giant said it had started building the facility on a 33-acre site in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, with aims for construction to be completed by 2025.

    It marks the latest investment by a major US tech firm in announced it would invest £2.5 billion to expand data centres for artificial intelligence (AI) across the UK.

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