Google spends $2 billion on property in London and SC, says it’s good to have land
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If you’re ever curious about how much land you can get for your buck on either side of the pond, just check out Google’s real estate accounts. It’s spending $600 million on adding a third complex to its sprawling Berkeley County site that’ll help the company process search queries and “other information.” While $600 million can get you around 500-acres of Palmetto State, it takes two-and-a-half times as much to get a paltry 2.4-acres in London’s Kings Cross. The $1.6 billion investment is going towards a new headquarters building that’ll pull together its employees from across the big city and, let’s hope, set aside some space for a British version of its X Lab — after all, you can’t be a mad scientist without a cool accent.
Source: Reuters, Post and Courier
