Two new Google infrastructure projects will benefit from a nearly $20 billion Alphabet cash infusion. Reported in recent weeks: a $9 billion cloud and AI server facility expansion in Virginia and $9 billion to be spent on new construction and an existing plant upgrade in Oklahoma. Google has also committed $1 billion to AI training and support from the community college to university levels in both states. Such ambitions do not stop at U.S. shores. AWS has earmarked $4.4 billion to construct and operate cloud centers in New Zealand while OpenAI seeks investors for an India build-out.

Google’s Virginia investment will commence “by 2026,” effecting “a new data center in Chesterfield County while enhancing its existing campuses in Loudoun and Prince William counties, two regions already at the heart of the U.S. data center boom,” CoinCentral reports.

Northern Virginia “handles roughly 70 percent of daily global Internet traffic” and this investment reinforces that status, CoinCentral points out, calling Loudoun the “Data Center Capital of the World.”

The new funding will finance “the growing cluster of hyperscale data centers in the state,” which accounts for about ”13 percent of the world’s operational data center capacity and 25 percent of the Americas’ capacity,” CoinCentral reports.

Last month Google announced that over the next two years it will spend $9 billion in Oklahoma building a new data center campus in Stillwater and the expansion of an existing facility in Pryor. One reason for the rural build-outs is cheaper energy prices, CoinCentral notes.

The new plants are also generating some energy of their own. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon told The Wall Street Journal the Amazon investment “will have a significant impact on our GDP” and is the largest commitment there by a single tech company.

AWS also “has plans for three more AWS regions in Chile, Saudi Arabia and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud” and is moving forward this year with “multibillion-dollar investments in parts of the U.S. and countries including Australia and the UK,” writes WSJ, contextualizing that “most of those outlays seek to bolster the company’s data-center network to meet booming global demand for AI computing.”

Meanwhile, OpenAI is “scouting local partners to set up a data center with at least 1-gigawatt capacity” in India, which “could mark a major step forward in Asia for its Stargate-branded artificial intelligence infrastructure push,” Bloomberg reports.