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Google is hiring thousands of people outside of its Silicon Valley base in the US and will build five more data centres in the country this year. In an investors' call, CEO Sundar Pichai said that Google would be "making significant investments in offices across nine states, including Colorado and Michigan". Google currently has six open data centres across the US. A data centre can typically employ a few hundred people, Fortune reported late on Friday. According to CNN, the company is also planning a "massive expansion" into San Jose, California, not far from its Mountain View headquarters.