Microsoft investment in Greece by Dimitrios Karvountzis
President of Microsoft Brad Smith and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Theodosis Michalopoulos CEO of Microsoft of Greece, Cyprus and Malta, have presented the investment of Microsoft in Greece. Greece is becoming a hub of the global Cloud (computing "cloud"), which is the core of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for the new investment of Microsoft, which will be made in Attica and which, as he said, "travels our country in the 21st century ". He characteristically stated that "Greece has its sun, now it acquires its cloud".
"Despite the pandemic, we have reached a new investment," he said, adding that "the establishment of a Data Center in a country by a company like Microsoft is upgrading it as an investment destination." He estimated that the benefit for the Greek economy will exceed one billion euros in the long run.
The goal, as he said in accordance with the APE BPE, "is for all Greeks to be with the winners of the 4th Industrial Revolution", something that had not happened with the previous industrial revolutions. He pointed out that "our country will be one of the few in the world to host such Data Centers" and said he was optimistic that there would be positive effects on employment, small and medium enterprises, scientific research, the prevention of "brain drain". ) etc.
It is important, as he said, to safely store large volumes of data (bid data) in our own country, something important for the State and the citi
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