Google announced a US$9 billion investment to expand two AI-driven data-center facilities in Oklahoma, reinforcing U.S. ambitions in large-scale model training infrastructure. The project will create several thousand construction and technical jobs while integrating renewable-energy power sources to offset emissions. Executives said the centers will accelerate multimodal-AI model training for products spanning search, cloud, and robotics. Economists noted the investment supports regional technology ecosystems and underlines big-tech competition in building sovereign-AI compute capacity within the U.S.