Microsoft to invest € 1 billion in three data centers in Greece

In Europe, Microsoft already has data centers in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Ireland (illustration) DR

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Greece and Microsoft announced this Monday, October 5 an investment agreement of one billion euros to build a storage infrastructure on the "cloud" in the metropolitan area of ​​Athens.

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The agreement signed between Greece and Microsoft provides for the construction of three data centers in the metropolitan area of ​​Athens.

The announcement comes as the Conservative government sets out to gradually simplify the country's utility websites.

No specific date has yet been announced for the opening of these future data centers.

But that did not prevent Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis from showing rapture, reports our correspondent in Athens,

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Before being caught up by geopolitical tensions with the Turkish neighbor and the Covid health crisis, the head of the Greek government had made foreign investments a political priority, for a country which is barely recovering from ten years of a serious crisis economic.

On Twitter, the Prime Minister is thus delighted with “ 

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In Europe, Microsoft already has data centers in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Ireland, while more are being built in Spain, Italy and Poland.

The agreement between the American giant and Athens also provides for a vocational training program for some 100,000 Greeks

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