Aug 29 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google said on

Thursday it will open its second data center in Latin America in

the Uruguayan city of Canelones and invest more than $850

million in it.

Google opened its first data center in Latin America in

Quilicura, which is near Santiago, the capital city of Chile, in

2015. It invested an initial amount of $150 million in the data

center and spent an additional $140 million in 2018 for

expansion.

"We hope our new data center in Canelones will be a

significant contribution to the professional and technological

development of Uruguay and the entire region," Google said in a

blog post.

Reuters reported on Thursday that Google is considering

building a "hyperscale" data centre close to Ho Chi Minh City in

Vietnam and that the center would be ready in 2027.

In April, Google announced a $3 billion investment to set up

a data center campus in Indiana and expand sites in Virginia.

Google also said in May that it will invest $2 billion in

Malaysia to develop its first data centre and Google Cloud

region in the country.

(Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru)