The internet is growing fast, and so is demand for our services, from search to Gmail and YouTube. In order to keep up with this growth, in 2016 we opened a new data center in Eemshaven, Netherlands, investing €600 million. In 2018, we announced a €500 million expansion of the campus. In June 2019, we announced a further Eemshaven expansion, as well as the planning of a new site in Middenmeer, about 108 km south. This brings our total Netherlands data center investment to €2.5 billion.

Our Eemshaven data center creates jobs for over 470 people in a variety of full-time and external supplier roles, including IT specialists, engineers, security guards, catering staff, and facility managers.

In the Netherlands, Google has agreements with wind farms in Delfzijl and Zeeland (Krammer and Bouwdokken) and a solar energy park in Delfzijl Sunport for the purchase of renewable energy for the data center.