Our newest investments in infrastructure and AI skills

One of nan reasons I americium proud to activity astatine Google is our mission: to shape nan world’s accusation and make it universally accessible and useful.

Google’s ngo is arsenic applicable now arsenic it was 25 years agone erstwhile nan institution was founded. That is why, today, we are announcing a bid of caller investments successful method infrastructure and societal effect — helping america to present our mission.

Investing successful our U.S. information halfway campuses

The accusation that we present to group astir nan world — done Google Search, YouTube, Maps and our galore different products — is supported by our infrastructure. Data centers support our products and services moving astir nan timepiece and astir nan world, and powerfulness Google’s AI innovation.

Today, Google is announcing $3 cardinal successful investments to build aliases grow our information halfway campuses successful Virginia and Indiana.

• Virginia: We’re investing an further $1 billion, pinch plans to grow our 3 existing Virginia information halfway campuses — bringing our full finance to day successful nan authorities to much than $4 billion.
• Indiana: In nan Midwest, we announced a $2 cardinal finance successful our newest information halfway field successful Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Announcing Google.org’s $75M AI Opportunity Fund

Fulfilling our ngo is astir much than delivering infrastructure and enabling entree to accusation — it is besides astir helping group turn their skills, businesses, and careers.

Together pinch our partners, we want to make judge everyone tin return advantage of nan opportunities AI will provide.

That’s why coming we are announcing a $75 cardinal Google AI Opportunity Fund, made imaginable pinch support from Google.org, our philanthropic arm. Through this fund, Google.org will activity pinch nonprofit, education, and different sectors to train 1 cardinal Americans of each backgrounds and supply them pinch AI skills astatine nary cost.

Alongside nan fund, coming we are launching nan Google AI Essentials course, built by Grow pinch Google and AI experts from Google’s Research, Technology & Society squad and crossed nan company. The people will thief thatch foundational skills to workers and let participants to summation basal AI skills to use successful their regular life.

Two of nan first recipients of nan Google AI Opportunity Fund will beryllium nan Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) and Goodwill.

• IVMF: With this grant, IVMF will beryllium capable to scope much than 1,800 veterans and subject families pinch nan AI Essentials Course, and enroll much than 2,000 successful nan Google Cybersecurity Certificate program, expanding upon our associated efforts to thief our nation’s veterans execute post-service success.
• Goodwill: Since Goodwill began offering Google’s integer skills programs successful 2017, 400,000 Americans person completed training and since been placed into well-paying jobs. With complete 80% of Americans surviving wrong 10 miles of a Goodwill, nan statement will thief Google supply AI training astatine standard and supply nan AI Essentials Course to section communities astatine nary cost, reaching group pinch disabilities and disadvantages, youth, older workers, veterans, subject families and group impacted by nan justness system.

Beyond nan nonprofit sector, Google is besides joining forces pinch employers, specified arsenic Citigroup, and acquisition institutions, specified arsenic Miami Dade College, to grow entree to AI skilling programs.

Together pinch our partners, Google brings a sustained committedness to processing talent who tin use from, and adhd to, this increasing integer economy. Today’s grants and infrastructure investments will thief those surviving successful Virginia and Indiana, veterans, and millions of others make nan astir of nan opportunities of coming and tomorrow.