Alphabet is building two new data facilities in South Carolina and has plans to pour $3.3 billion in the new infrastructure projects to support AI development in the US.

Two new data centres will be built in Dorchester, said the company's chief executive Sundar Pichai, and will be located in the Pine hill Business Campus in Ridgeville and Winding Woods Commerce Park in St. George.

According to Alphabet, the project represents a $2 billion investment and aims to create 200 operational jobs.

The research giant said it will also expand its existing data centre campus in Berkeley County, with South Carolina governor's office confirming the project in a statement on Thursday. Alphabet will deploy around $1.3 billion in the facilities extension projects.

In July, Alphabet reported capital deployments of $13 billion, with the tech giant announcing that quarterly capital expenditure for the rest of 2024 would be at or above $12 million.

Earlier this year, Alphabet’s Google announced it was expanding its infrastructure in Latin America with a second data centre in the region at a cost of more than $850 million.

The new data centre will be located in the Uruguayan city of Canelones and follows the 2015 opening of the company’s first Latin American data centre located in Quillicura, a city of about 125,000 residents near Chile’s capital Santiago.

According to Reuters, Google is considering building a “hyperscale” data centre close to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, with plans to open the centre in 2027.

Earlier this month, Microsoft confirmed its partnership with giant investors BlackRock and Adu-Dhabi investment MGX to launch a more than $30 billion fund to invest in AI infrastructure, including data centres and energy projects.

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