With some 8,000 workers at its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Google is already the company with more employees in his hometown and continues to grow even faster abroad. Now Google plans to convert its already significant complex, known as the Googleplex, in a megacomplejo.

Google has just signed an agreement 40 years to develop a campus of about 170.000m2 around the Ames Research Center of NASA, bordering Googleplex. The new campus will expand the capacity of the headquarters of Google in its current 186.000m2 to 279.000m2, said David Radcliffe, vice president of Google.

The agreement further strengthens the already close relationship between Google and the Center of NASA Ames, which began in 2005, when both organizations signed a memorandum of agreement that marked the beginning of negotiations on the development plan and other projects.

Other collaborations between Google and NASA include: the project “Planetary Content”, which aims at developing a software that enables scientists published data worldwide via the Internet and that has led to Google Moon and “layer” (layer ) From the trap in Google Earth, the project “Global Connection”, aimed at improving the layer “National Geographic” in Google, and the project “Disaster Response”, which is responsible for the development of prototype software tools to help improve the first response to natural disasters on a large scale.

As part of development project, Google plans to include some of the generous services to which their employees are already accustomed, such as sports facilities, dining room, gym, nursery, conference room and parking. He also built homes for some employees. It is expected that construction will last two and a half years to three and a half years, will be developed in phases and will start before 2013.