Google 5.5 bln eur investment plan will secure 9,000 jobs in Germany, official says

Google's GOOG planned 5.5 billion euro ($6.41 billion) investment in its German cloud infrastructure will secure 9,000 jobs in the country, a senior Google official said on Tuesday.

"The economic multiplier effect of this investment will be considerable," Philipp Justus, the head of Google in Germany, said at a press conference in Berlin. "We estimate that our investment will secure a total of around 9,000 jobs in Germany each year."

($1 = 0.8575 euros)