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Google To Add $300M Data Center In Douglas County

June 2nd, 2015

Google announced it will spend $300 million to add a new data center next to its existing Douglas County facility in Lithia Springs.

CREDIT STEPHANIE LENNOX / WABE

Google announced it’s adding a new $300 million data center next to an existing one in Douglas County.

At the groundbreaking in Lithia Springs on Tuesday, Gov. Nathan Deal said companies are looking at Georgia specifically because of Google’s growth in the state.

“They need to be able to have that connectivity,” Deal said. “So it gives us the availability to be an international [state] even more so than we have been in the past.”

Gov. Nathan Deal jokes that children don’t need to learn dates of important historical battles, they only need to “learn how to Google it.” He says Google’s expansion in Georgia is a crucial selling point to bringing other companies here. CREDIT STEPHANIE LENNOX / WABE

Google says it will add 25 new full-time jobs and construction of the building is expected to be complete in 2016.

“We are here for a reason. It comes down to not only services in the area demanding things, but we count on data centers being able to be redundant to each another,” Jason Wellman, an operations manager at Google’s Lithia Springs data center, said. “We’ve got the ones in the Carolinas, so we kind of have this little triangle going on.”

The company recently announced plans to bring high speed gigabit internet service – Google Fiber – to nine cities in Georgia.