In the News Google’s massive 1,210-acre facility rising in high desert at Tahoe Reno Industrial Center By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette Journal Published on July 31, 2019
Google’s Northern Nevada facility is shaping up to be a large undertaking as construction picks up at the 1,210-acre site inside Tahoe Reno Industrial Center. Photographs taken by the Reno Gazette Journal on Tuesday show plenty of construction activity at the site on USA Parkway just a few miles south of the Switch Citadel data center campus and Tesla Gigafactory in Storey County. The frame of a two-story structure surrounded by cranes and other construction equipment can be seen at the site, which Google bought for $29.1 million in April 2017. Google has yet to provide specific details about the facility, which is expected to be a data center. Google bought the facility as part of a $13 billion investment that the company was making across the United States, including in Nevada. At the time, CEO Sundar Pichai indicated that Google will be making major expansions in 14 states.
The site east of Reno-Sparks has since seen multiple
“These new investments will give us the capacity to hire tens
expansions over the years. Apple also wrapped up construction
of thousands of employees, and enable the creation of more
of a downtown Reno warehouse earlier this year, which was
than 10,000 new construction jobs in Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio,
a requirement for the company to receive $89 million in tax
Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia,” Pichai wrote in
abatements.
Google’s official blog. “With this new investment, Google will now have a home in 24 total states, including data centers in 13 communities.” Google is just the latest in a string of high-profile tech companies to expand into Northern Nevada in the last few years. Apple kickstarted the recent tech movement to the Biggest Little Cityafter picking Reno Technology Park just across TRIC as the site for its new data center in 2012.
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Tesla was the next big name to drop after it picked Northern Nevada in 2014 as the site for the Gigafactory, a joint battery production plant with Panasonic. Switch, meanwhile, finished construction of the world’s largest data center building at TRIC in 2017. Switch also plans to build the largest data center campus on the same location. A Google representative told the Reno Gazette Journal on Friday that it has no new updates about the facility.
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