PAPILLION- Google officials confirmed publicly that it is behind the $600 million Lincoln data center poised to rise on roughly 580 acres near Interstate 80 and North 56th Street. The project continues Google’s sprawl in Nebraska, adding to the tech giant’s other data campuses in Papillion and Omaha. This year alone, Google officials announced, the company is investing $1.2 billion in Nebraska infrastructure.

“We’re here. We’re here to stay, and we’re here to expand,” Allie Hopkins, Google’s head of data centers in Nebraska and Iowa, said during a media event at the company’s growing Papillion site. While some of the Lincoln center’s cost is within that 2023 total, Hopkins said that further investment in the multi-phased project will spill into future years.

Construction work has already started, with ground preparation. When complete, Google representatives said, the Lincoln center should create at least 30 full-time jobs. “That’s all to support these digital services that everyone is so used to using every day,” Hopkins said, citing Google Cloud, Gmail, Docs, Search, Maps and more. Google officials declined to reveal more than basic details of a project.

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