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SPD parliamentary group leader Jochen Ott speaks in the current hour in the state parliament.
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The SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia has welcomed the announced billion-dollar investment by the US company Microsoft, especially in the Rhenish lignite mining area in North Rhine-Westphalia.
This is “an absolute milestone in the industrial transition,” said SPD parliamentary group leader Jochen Ott on Thursday in Düsseldorf.
This means there is an opportunity to make the Rheinisches Revier a leading location in data and cloud computing and research on artificial intelligence.
Düsseldorf - “A power plant of the future is being built here in North Rhine-Westphalia,” the opposition leader continued.
With so-called cloud computing, companies gain access to IT resources such as databases and servers via the Internet.
The state chairman of the NRW SPD, Achim Post, named the Bergheim and Bedburg locations as the locations for the “Hyperscale Data Center Campus”.
This is “a groundbreaking investment in Germany as a business location and a quantum leap for structural change in the region.”
According to the Bundestag politician, Germany is internationally competitive and a “highly attractive location for future investments”.
NRW wants to get out of coal completely by 2030.
Microsoft will invest almost 3.3 billion euros in Germany over the next two years to massively expand its data center capacities for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing applications.
Microsoft President Brad Smith announced this on Thursday in Berlin during a conversation with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD).
The largest single investment in Microsoft's 40-year history in Germany also includes an AI training program intended to reach up to 1.2 million people.
dpa