Google has acquired a 27-million-euro (28.5 million U.S. {dollars}) land parcel in Finland to broaden its information heart operations, the Finnish authorities introduced on Thursday.
Metsahallitus, Finland’s state forest property administrator, has been licensed to promote roughly 1,400 hectares of land close to Kajaani, a northeastern city that serves as a key hub for information heart actions. The federal government famous in its press launch that land transactions of this dimension are uncommon in Finland.
Google has been working information facilities in Finland since 2011, with its campus in Hamina at present using round 400 full-time employees, based on the discharge.
In Finland, Google constructed its first information heart in Hamina, a metropolis positioned roughly 145 km east of the nation’s capital Helsinki, in 2009. In Might this yr, the U.S. tech large introduced a brand new 1-billion-euro funding to broaden its Hamina campus, which is predicted to create extra jobs within the subsequent two years, based on native media stories. (1 euro = 1.06 U.S. greenback) ■
