Alphabet’s Google is 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.

"We hope our new data centre in Canelones will be a significant contribution to the professional and technological development of Uruguay and the entire region," Google said in a blog post.

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.

The tech giant had previously announced a series of investments revealing new data centre construction in several countries, including a $3 billion investment to set up a data centre campus in Indiana and expand its sites in the US state of Virginia.

In May, Google also announced plans to invest $2 billion in Malaysia to develop its first data facility in the country.

The firm currently operates 33 data centres located across the world, according to its website.

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