Traffic is seen on the Rondo Dmowskiego roundabout in Warsaw, Poland on June 11, 2020. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/Xinhua)
The declared investment means that the country will become a "digital hub" for central and eastern Europe, said Pawel Borys, head of the Polish Development Fund.
WARSAW, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Tech giants Google and Microsoft will invest a combined 3 billion U.S. dollars in Poland in the coming years, the head of the Polish Development Fund (PFR) announced on Wednesday.
According to a tweet of Pawel Borys, the head of PFR, the declared investment means that the country will become a "digital hub" for central and eastern Europe.
Google will build a new data center in Poland worth 2 billion U.S. dollars starting in 2021, business newspaper Puls Biznesu reported on Tuesday.
Photo taken on May 8, 2020 shows the closed Microsoft store at Oxford Circus in London, Britain. (Photo by Tim Ireland/Xinhua)
The company will also train 10,000 staff in the country, while building a cloud team there. Talking to the paper, Google Cloud director Magdalena Dziewguc said that the regional cloud will consist of three cloud regions. "Each of those infrastructures will be independent, technically and in terms of software."
Microsoft announced its one-billion-U.S.-dollar investment at the start of May. It will include a hyper-scale data center, as well as support for further development of digital skills and digital transformations. ■
