Google to launch € 1 billion investment in Germany to develop cloud service (Google Cloud) – announced in Berlin on Tuesday
to build a new data center in Hanau, near Frankfurt, to expand the capacity of the so-called cloud region in Frankfurt.
80 percent of the energy needed to run a data center that provides customer data and provides computing services, platforms and software to customers is generated from renewable sources by Google’s partner, a French energy provider called Engie, which will reach 100 percent by 2030.
The investment was decided on the basis of the growing demand for cloud services in Germany. The upgrade will further improve the reliability and speed of Google Cloud services, the company said. Renewable data centers will be built there in the development program until the end of the decade. “also improves,” said Federal Economy Minister Peter Altmaier in a Berlin briefing, referring to the fact that data from German users will remain within the country through local data centers.
Google is the world’s third largest cloud market After a service called AWS and a service called Microsoft Azure. Google Cloud, which is available in most parts of the world, is organized into 27 regions, including a total of 82 so-called zones.
it already employs more than 2,500 people this year.
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