Google to invest up to 2 bln USD in cloud support hub

The investment will be Google’s largest ever in Poland. Public domain

Google is to invest up to 2 billion USD in a data centre to support cloud services in Poland, the daily Puls Biznesu reported Wednesday. 

The planned infrastructure and software hub Warsaw Google Cloud region will be set up in the capital as a technical and programming infrastructure hub for Central and Eastern Europe.

Head of Google Cloud business development for Poland and CEE Magdalena Dziewguc told Puls Biznesu: "The Google Cloud region in Warsaw is the largest investment of this type on the infrastructure market in Poland.

Head of Google Cloud business development for Poland and CEE Magdalena Dziewguc said the project would be operational by the beginning of 2021.Magdalena Dziewguc/Twitter

"We are getting ready for it to be operational at the beginning of 2021.”

According to Puls Biznesu, it will be Google's largest investment ever in Poland.

Deputy prime minister Jadwiga Emilewicz said the investment could reach 1.5-2 billion USD.