In June 2021, Google won approval to build an 80-acre campus, spanning 7. While the tech industry broadly is struggling to adapt to a post-Covid world that appears to be more hybrid and less centered around large campuses, Google is in a particularly precarious spot because of its massive commitment, financial and otherwise, to altering the landscape of a major urban area. Newsom and officials cited Google's proposed mega-campus several times as an example of the state’s economic “comeback” from the Covid pandemic