- Google will invest £ 5 billion in the British economy over two years
- A new Hertfordshire -Datacenter is the key to the agreement
- Google breaks $ 3 trillion barrier
Google has set plans to invest $ 5 billion ($ 6.8 billion) in the UK over the next two years prior to a proposed British-American tech trading agreement expected to be completed this week during Trump’s visit to London.
Focus for Google’s investment will be on AIInfrastructure and scientific research, with the company set to open a $ 735 million data center ($ 1 billion) in Hertfordshire to support AI services across Google Cloud, Search, Maps and Workspace.
This only forms one of a growing list of investments advertised by US tech companies prior to the upcoming agreement that is expected to tackle expensive tariffs.
Google is announcing UK investments ahead of the US-UK Agreement
Google shared details of his upcoming data center in a blog post announcing that an expected 8,250 job will be supported by it.
The site was opened by British Chancellor Rachel Reeves and is ready to “help the United Kingdom develop its AI economy.”
A partnership with Shell will see that the site comes with 95% carbon -free energy by the end of 2026, and the place is also set to use air cooling rather than water cooling to reduce its environmental impact. Heat catching will also correct wasted heat for local homes, businesses and schools.
Google will also use battery storage to feed the excess clean energy back in the grid “at times.”
The news comes as Google continues on an upward course. Yesterday it was the fourth company that broke the significant $ 3 trillion market capital barrier (now valued at $ 3,043 trillion with a $ 253.91 share price, a 33% year increase to date).
In his 2025 environmental report, Google boasted a POU score (PUN) of 1.09 -84% lower than the global industry -average of 1.56. Still, data calplicity consumption increased 27% by 2024, indicating the matches that Google and other data center infrastructure providers face.
