Google announces new investment in Oklahoma as part of $13B expansion across the U.S.

Google announced Wednesday it would be investing more than $13 billion this year into data centers and offices across the U.S., including Oklahoma.

CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a statement that the effort will enable Google to "hire tens of thousands of employees and enable the creation of more than 10,000 new construction jobs in Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia."

The internet giant one year ago revealed plans to spend $600 million at its facilities in Mayes County, bringing the company’s total investment in Oklahoma to more than $2.5 billion. A timeline for that project was not specified, but Google confirmed that the project announced Wednesday would be in addition to that $600 million planned investment, according to a local public relations firm that handles Oklahoma news for Google.