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Google to invest another $2.3 billion in central Ohio data centers

The Google logo is seen at the company's headquarters Tuesday, July 19, 2016, in Mountain View, Calif.
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The Google logo is seen at the company's headquarters Tuesday, July 19, 2016, in Mountain View, Calif.

Google plans to invest another $2.3 billion at its sites in Columbus, New Albany and Lancaster as the company builds on its technical infrastructure.

Google officials and others made the announcement Tuesday morning at Google's Columbus data center off South High Street and Rathmell Road on the Far South Side.

Google has already spent more than $4.4 billion in Ohio since breaking ground on its first data center in New Albany in 2019.

The Columbus cloud region opened in 2022, and is part of Google Cloud's network of 40 global regions.

It delivers services to the state of Ohio, Nationwide, Victoria's Secret, Wendy's and Huntington National Bank.

In a statement, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted said, "Data centers are essential to our digital lives and Google's additional multibillion-dollar investment further establishes central Ohio as an important tech hub in America."

This is a developing story.

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Mark Ferenchik is news director at WOSU 89.7 NPR News.