Google has doubled its workforce in Colorado in the last two years to more than 650 people, the company shared Wednesday in a new report on how its presence impacts local economies.
The Silicon Valley search and advertising giant has two main locations in the state, including a data center in Thornton and offices in Boulder. The company is building a new Google campus in Boulder near 30th and Pearl streets to house up to 1,500 workers. When the project was announced in late 2014, the move-in date was set for first-quarter 2017, but that has not yet happened and the company did not provide a new completion date.
The latest report, with 2016 results, said that 40,000 Colorado businesses and websites used Google’s advertising tools like AdWords and AdSense. Google also highlighted RuMe, a Centennial seller of reusable bags with 70 employees. RuMe said it’s grown 500 percent in the last few years, partly due to its use of Google products.
Last year’s report put Google employment in Colorado at 450 and the prior year, it was around 300.
Nationwide, the company said it worked with 1.5 million businesses nationwide, employed 50,000 people in 21 states. It also added nearly 22,000 people in the past three years.
