PUSAT DATA: pelaburan Google, Microsoft, Perkhidmatan Web Amazon, Cisco dan Syarikat Digital Realty di Greece

Google - Data Centers

Melalui 2022, Google telah mengukuhkan komitmennya di Greece untuk mempercepatkan pembangunan mampan dan inklusif serta transformasi digital, mempergiatkan lagi sokongan besarnya kepada negara. Dengan inisiatif strategik, dan dengan tumpuan kepada orang ramai, syarikat teknologi itu membuka lembaran penting baharu di Greece dengan pengumuman penciptaan Wilayah Awan Google yang pertama. Pelaburan yang sangat penting, yang, menurut AlphaBeta Economics, akan menyumbang sejumlah $2,2 bilion kepada KDNK negara menjelang 2030, sambil menyokong penciptaan lebih daripada 19,400 pekerjaan. Pada masa yang sama, beliau bekerjasama dengan Kementerian Pelancongan dan Majlis Pelancongan Mampan Sedunia untuk mempromosikan pelancongan mampan, mahu membantu perniagaan pelancongan mencipta strategi untuk kelestarian dan menyampaikan tindakan alam sekitar mereka dengan berkesan. Ia juga memperluaskan kerjasamanya dengan Deloitte untuk mewujudkan Pusat Kecemerlangan, di Thessaloniki dan Patras, khusus untuk kemampanan dan kecerdasan buatan, manakala Google.org membiayai INCO dan Impact Hub Athens dengan sejumlah 1 juta euro untuk menyokong perniagaan sosial daripada komuniti yang kurang diwakili, yang memberi tumpuan kepada penyelesaian yang mampan.

Microsoft - Data Centers

In 2022, Microsoft Hellas completed 30 years of uninterrupted operation in our country by further strengthening its activities, thereby opening up new prospects for digital development. In particular, the framework of its investment initiative "Gr for Growth", succeeded in including its plan for the creation of three data centers, in the status of Strategic Investments. In this phase, the licensing of the Project is progressing, with the 1st Strategic Environmental Impact Study which has been put up for public consultation. Microsoft's new infrastructures will accelerate the transition of the Greek public administration and the country's businesses to the cloud and will create new possibilities for sustainable digital development. At the same time, the company continues to invest in the country's people and talent, constantly empowering them with new digital knowledge. Aiming to offer 100.000 digital trainings and certifications by 2025, this year it made important partnerships with the aim of providing free training in modern digital skills for public administration officials, the unemployed seeking their reintegration into the labor market, professionals and new graduates. Finally, Microsoft continues, as it has pointed out, its effort to make Greek businesses even more competitive. In 2022, it entered into new strategic partnerships that facilitate the transition to the cloud of large enterprises, such as PPC and Piraeus Bank, and made available new customized solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises, which receive a subsidy from the Recovery Fund to acquire digital tools and applications.

Perkhidmatan Web Amazon - Data Centers

The investment announced by Amazon Web Services to create a Local Zone in Athens is also in full swing, with Greece being among the first 26 countries outside the US where Local Zones will be created, creating extremely fast responses (latency) to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. The project in Athens is expected to be completed within 2023. Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure that places computing power, data storage, databases, and other services closer to major urban, industrial, and technology centers. They allow AWS customers to develop applications that require very fast responses (latencies), below ten milliseconds, close to the end users. They thus ensure, as announced, a seamless experience for applications such as real-time gaming, multimedia and entertainment content creation, live video streaming, simulations, augmented and virtual reality applications, machine learning, etc. At the same time, since AWS manages and supports Local Zones itself, its customers do not bear the costs of building, operating, and maintaining corresponding infrastructure in different locations to support very fast applications. The new Local Zones will also enable companies in industries such as healthcare and financial services, as well as the wider public sector, to store and process data across borders. They can be used by customers who need to store their data locally and "run" specific applications in data centers on their premises, but at the same time wish to use AWS services and benefit from the very fast response times provided by Local Zones in such hybrid applications.

Cisco - Data Centers

Pada tahun 2022, Cisco mengumumkan dengan kerjasama ONEX Neorion Shipyards dan Wilayah Aegean Selatan penciptaan Pusat Antarabangsa kedua yang akan ditubuhkan di bumi Yunani, kali ini di Cyclades. Ini adalah Pusat Antarabangsa bagi Teknologi dan Inovasi Marin, yang telah pun ditempatkan di kawasan seluas 600 meter persegi. dalam premis limbungan kapal Neorio di Syros. Pusat Inovasi Aegean Neorion akan menyediakan pelbagai teknologi alat kepada syarikat perkapalan untuk mengimbangi kemampanan ekonomi dan alam sekitar mereka, manakala dalam kawasan latihan yang direka khas pelajar akan dapat menghadiri kursus, menyediakan mereka dengan alat latihan teknologi terkini, supaya memperoleh pensijilan yang diperlukan yang akan membantu mereka menghadapi tuntutan kerja yang sentiasa berubah. Pada masa yang sama, Cisco, melalui program pembangunan kemahiran digital global, Cisco Networking Academy, NetAcad, yang merupakan program paling lama berjalan dengan lebih daripada 3 juta graduan telah mendapat pekerjaan, sejak 2005 hingga hari ini, meneruskan kehadirannya di Greece , mempunyai telah bekerjasama dengan Universiti Thessaly, Universiti Peloponnese, Universiti Piraeus di Jabatan Sistem Digital dan Universiti Macedonia. Beberapa hari lalu, beliau turut mengumumkan penyediaan kursus latihan Kemahiran Digital secara percuma di beberapa Perbandaran di wilayah Greece. Ke arah ini, Cisco, melalui jambatan Bakat, telah membantu 33.000 pelajar mencari kerja di seluruh dunia, dari 2017 hingga hari ini. 2022 ditandai untuk Cisco, tahun pertama operasi Pusat Antarabangsa untuk Transformasi Digital dan Kemahiran Digital di Thessaloniki. Pusat ini diwujudkan dalam rangka program pelaburan Country Digital Acceleration, CDA, yang dilaksanakan di 43 negara. Ia merupakan hab inovasi pelbagai disiplin yang setakat ini telah menganjurkan lebih daripada 15 projek, di mana lebih daripada 200 orang telah bekerja, mewujudkan ekosistem orang dan perniagaan yang sedang berkembang di bandar. Ekosistem ini telah merekodkan lebih 1,200 jam latihan, menganjurkan lebih 150 acara dan mengalu-alukan lebih 5,000 pelawat. Selain itu, pemeteraian 17 perjanjian kerjasama dengan beberapa siri agensi juga mencerminkan penembusan ke dalam ekosistem institusi.

Syarikat Digital Realty - Data Centers

Digital Realty Company, one of the leading cloud and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection providers, announced last week that it is expanding its presence in Athens, through the Lamda Hellix it has acquired, with the development of two new data centers . The first facility, ATH3, is currently under construction and is scheduled to be operational by March 2023. Upon completion, it is expected to be the largest data center in the country, capable of supporting up to 6.8 MW of capacity within of the 8.600 sq m facilities. The second facility, ATH-4, is expected to add an additional 6.8 MW of power when operational, which is expected in 2024. As both ATH-3 and ATH have been announced -4 are to be connected to Lamda Hellix's existing ATH-1 and ATH-2 facilities, offering customers access to dense and rapidly growing connected data communities established at these sites. Through PlatformDIGITAL®, Digital Realty's global data center platform, clients will be able to connect with the businesses that matter most across Digital Realty's global footprint of more than 300 data centers in 50 metros, across 27 countries in six continents. Combined with Digital Realty's expanded presence in Crete, where a new data center is being developed in Heraklion, ATH-3 and ATH-4 are set to form part of Digital Realty's broader vision to strengthen its presence in the Mediterranean region, as and Greece's position as a key strategic gateway to Eastern Europe and North Africa.

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