Google to invest RM580mil to expand data centre in Chile

Google logos are seen during the announcement of the plans for their data centre expansion in Santiago, Chile, September 12, 2018. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Google will invest US$140mil (RM580mil) to expand the tech giant's sole data centre in Latin America, a development Chile's president hailed as proof of the country's enthusiastic participation in "the fourth industrial revolution."

The expansion, announced by Google and Chilean officials, represents the company's second stage of growth for the data centre in Quilicura, near Santiago, which became fully operational in 2015. Google said the new investment will triple the data centre's size to 11.2 hectares and create more than 1,000 new jobs in the construction process and 120 new permanent jobs.