Google $6 billion investment plan will secure 9,000 jobs in Germany, official says

Alphabet’s Google will invest 5.5 billion euros ($6.41 billion) in Germany in the coming years in a push to expand its infrastructure and data centre capacity in Europe’s largest economy, company and government officials said on Tuesday.

The plan includes a new data centre in Dietzenbach, close to Frankfurt, as well as the expansion of the US company’s site in the city of Hanau, also in the central German state of Hesse, Google and state officials said at a news conference in Berlin.

Marianne Janik, vice president for Google Cloud Northern Europe, told…