Microsoft to invest $7.16 billion in new data centres in northeastern Spain

MADRID : Microsoft plans to make investments 6.69 billion euros ($7.16 billion) to manufacture recent recordsdata centres in Spain’s northeastern role of Aragon, which is changing into a famous cloud computing hub within Europe.

Aragon’s regional govt acknowledged the U.S. tech enormous had applied for a building enable to connect recordsdata centres at a living outside the city of Zaragoza, confirming a file by native newspaper El Heraldo.

The corporate’s funding will likely be spread out over 10 years, the regional govt acknowledged.

Microsoft, which only in the near past launched a 2.1 billion euro funding in recordsdata centres in Madrid, declined to comment on the plans in Aragon.

Microsoft follows its foremost competitor Amazon’s cloud computing unit AWS in setting eyes on Aragon. Amazon launched closing month it might per chance well perchance per chance make investments 15.7 billion euros over the next 10 years to connect recordsdata centres in Aragon.

Amazon acknowledged it might per chance well perchance per chance vitality its recordsdata centres fully with renewable vitality.

The Aragon role has a shapely wind vitality skill.

Zaragoza, Spain’s fifth-most appealing city, has change into a logistics and transportation hub, It is positioned halfway between Madrid and Barcelona, Spain’s biggest city areas, and in the guts of the significant replace hall connecting the Iberian Peninsula to France and the remainder of Europe.

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