{"id":296467,"date":"2025-11-17T05:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/296467\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:36:18","slug":"elon-musk-calls-googles-40-billion-texas-investment-mind-blowing-ceo-sundar-pichai-responds-between-abundant-sand-plenty-of-sun-and-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/296467\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk calls Google&#8217;s $40 billion Texas investment \u2018mind-blowing\u2019, CEO Sundar Pichai responds: \u2018Between abundant sand, plenty of sun and space..\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-and-elon-musk.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk calls Google's $40 billion Texas investment \u2018mind-blowing\u2019, CEO Sundar Pichai responds: \u2018Between abundant sand, plenty of sun and space..\u2019\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/gadgetsnow.indiatimes.com\/brands\/Google\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google<\/a> has announced a significant investment in its US infrastructure, pledging $40 billion toward expansion in Texas through 2027. This represents one of the company&#8217;s largest US infrastructure initiatives to date. Google CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sundar-pichai\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sundar Pichai<\/a> confirmed the investment in an online post which has drawn praise from rival tech billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk<\/a>, who called the AI spending spree \u201cmind-blowing\u201d while predicting even greater expenditures ahead.The exchange between Musk and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on social media highlighted both the scale of investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and Texas&#8217;s emergence as a major tech hub, with Pichai touting the state&#8217;s natural advantages for data center development.$40 billion commitment to Cloud and AIPichai announced the investment in a social media post, describing it as one of Google&#8217;s largest US infrastructure commitments to date.\u201cToday, we&#8217;re announcing a new $40B investment in Texas through 2027 to build Cloud &amp; AI infrastructure and support thousands of new jobs,\u201d Pichai wrote.\u201cThis includes new data centers in Armstrong and Haskell Counties and a major investment to strengthen energy resilience and abundance,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk Becomes First Man To Have $500 Billion Wealth<\/p>\n<p> The CEO also revealed that Google will fund efforts to more than double Texas&#8217;s projected pipeline of new electricians to support the AI era, thanking Texas Governor Greg Abbott for his continued support after 15 years of Google&#8217;s presence in the state.Musk\u2019s &#8216;mind-blowing&#8217; responseTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who relocated his companies&#8217; headquarters to Texas and has been critical of Google in the past, responded enthusiastically to the announcement.\u201cIt&#8217;s mind-blowing how much money is being spent on AI compute so fast! But still many orders of magnitude to go\u2026\u201d Musk wrote.Pichai replied with a lighthearted nod to Texas&#8217;s geographic and natural advantages: \u201cBetween abundant sand, plenty of sun and space (literally) to put it in, we can do it :)\u201dGoogle emphasised that the investment will prioritise responsible infrastructure growth, including adding clean energy resources to the Texas grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google has announced a significant investment in its US infrastructure, pledging $40 billion toward expansion in Texas through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,11,168,27247,74,1019,154688,154689],"class_list":{"0":"post-296467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-elon-musk","12":"tag-google","13":"tag-sundar-pichai","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-tesla","16":"tag-texas-investment","17":"tag-texas-tech-hub"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}