BERLIN, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Google's 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)