Microsoft is investing more than 3 billion euros in AI. The US group wants to expand with its AI applications in Germany.
The investment funds will flow primarily to North Rhine-Westphalia, where Microsoft wants to set up a new cloud region. The group is looking for physical proximity to major customers such as Bayer and RWE in order to keep data transit times (latency) between the data centers and the applications as low as possible. The Rhine/Main region is Germany's leading location for data centers due to the large Internet node DE-CIX in Frankfurt.