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Google Cloud launches its cloud region in Madrid after more than 600 million investment

It will create 10,000 jobs.

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Google Cloud launches its cloud region in Madrid after more than 600 million investment

It will create 10,000 jobs

MADRID, 25 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Google Cloud launched its cloud region in Madrid on Wednesday, the first in southern Europe for the firm after an investment of 650 million dollars (609 million euros).

The company estimates that the region, named Europe South West 1 and made up of three facilities, will generate a total of 10,000 jobs with an impact on the country's economy of 1,300 million euros.

The general director of Google Cloud Iberia, Isaac Hernández, and the international president of this technology branch, Adaire Fox-Martin, have staged the 'turning on' of the network's data centers at an event held this Wednesday in Madrid.

With this region, Google adds 30 cloud areas in the world, to which Milan and Paris will soon be added. The one inaugurated this Wednesday is also the first region to be opened by one of the technological giants in Spain, serving as the beginning of the succession of openings that is expected in the coming months with the arrival of the regions prepared by Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, IBM and Oracle.

The region began operating on May 9 and currently has a hundred clients, including Carrefour, BBVA, Mapfre and Leroy Merlin.

On the other hand, a group of 30 Google partners, which includes from foreign multinationals such as Kyndryl, Accenture and NTT Data to Spanish companies Minsait, Indra's digital solutions subsidiary, Making Science, AtSistemas, and Sngular, already provide their services as well within the region.

The Director of Engineering for Google Cloud Iberia, Javier Martínez, highlighted the company's security proposal, which uses the cryptography itself developed by the technology and which will reinforce European digital sovereignty.

Among the advantages for the user, Martínez has especially highlighted the reduction in latency, which has gone from 20 or 30 milliseconds to one in Madrid and less than ten in the rest of Spain since the launch of the region.

Likewise, emphasis has also been placed on the good connections in Spain. Recently Google has connected one of its submarine cables in Bilbao and a few weeks ago it announced a new cable that will connect Lisbon and Africa, which will affect the interconnection of the entire Iberian Peninsula with the rest of the world.

Spain has positioned itself as one of the main centers of investment in digital infrastructures in Europe in the last year, with Madrid consolidated as the 'digital hub' in the south of the continent.

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