Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke at a Google event at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center regarding the company’s investment in Greece for the development of infrastructure and a regional cloud service hub.
The prime minister emphasized that Google‘s new investment shows the global giant’s confidence in Greece during all these years of successive crises and added that it can contribute more than 2 billion euros by 2030 and create 20,000 well-paid new jobs.
The prime minister noted that during these 15 years of successive crises, Google not only stayed, but also strengthened its presence in Greece, thus also contributing to the country’s development trajectory “which remains steadily upward, despite the crises”.
The prime minister reiterated his vision for a digital leap for Greece adding that the main pillar of this is Greece 2.0 which is an active core of the country’s economic transformation.
Earlier, Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with the president of Google Cloud International, Adaire Fox-Martin.
For her part, the President of Google Cloud International, Adaire Fox Martin, in her address emphasized that the investment will contribute a total of 2.2 billion dollars to the Greek GDP by 2030 and will support the creation of over 19,400 new jobs.
“It was our honor to cooperate with Greece for the last 15 years, it is our honor to cooperate with Greece in the future as well”
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