Google will spend $1 billion to grow its New York City office, the company said on Monday, an announcement that follows significant expansion plans from other tech giants.
Google said it expects to double the already 7,000 employees in the city within the next decade.
“New York City continues to be a great source of diverse, world-class talent — that’s what brought Google to the city in 2000 and that’s what keeps us here,” the company said in a statement.
The plans were announced just as the Mountain View, Calif.-based tech firm is under increasing scrutiny in Washington D.C. Google’s top executive, Sundar Pichai, appeared in front of a House committee this month to fight Republican allegations that the company’s signature search engine is biased against conservatives.
A project to re-enter China after leaving in 2010 over human rights violations has also drawn bipartisan scrutiny.
Last week, Apple said it would build a $1 billion office in Austin, Texas, as well as other satellite offices across the country. Amazon is also planning new offices in New York City and northern Virginia, an announcement that drew scrutiny from some local officials over the company’s decision to publicly pit cities against each other to receive billions in tax breaks.
