Ruth Porat, finance chief of Google parent Alphabet, said on the company's earnings call earlier this month that she expects the "capex growth rate in 2019 to moderate quite significantly." Pichai said the plans will likely create tens of thousands of construction jobs across Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Texas and Virginia, as well as Oklahoma and South Carolina, where the company is expanding existing data centers. Google didn't say how many new jobs the data centers and business offices would create.