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> (Reuters) – Google delivered a vote of confidence in London’s future as a technological hub after the Brexit vote on Tuesday by announcing plans for a new building in the King’s Cross area of the city that will house thousands of extra engineers.

There's something wrong with this story. I've been hearing about a Google building in King's Cross ever since I moved here, so that's been around 2 and a half years. They didn't just announce it.

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They spent over a billion dollars buying the land for this HQ in 2013... I mean, I guess it's good they aren't pulling the plug but yeah, there's no new news here.

It was actually meant to have been ready this year, but the initial plans were scrapped for being too boring.[1] I suspect this means that they might now have come up with a new set of plans that they're willing to go ahead with.

[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/googles-new-11-storey-office-i...

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