After the integration in April 2022 of its three data centers Microsoft in strategic investment mode, the next milestone for the €1 billion investment is the start of construction of facilities that store data and information flowing through Internet. This is expected to happen this year as the company proceeds to obtain the necessary permits for the construction of data centers planned for business parks Spata and Koropi.

The investment was led by the Greek subsidiary of US technology group Microsoft Operations 4733 Hellas, which recently released financial statements for its first corporate year from August 3, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The company aims to install and operate three data centers and the provision of related services showed a turnover of 635.8 thousand euros. According to the financial report for its first corporate year, four months ago, in October 2022, Microsoft Operations 4733 Hellas acquired a €6.23 million site, the location of which the company does not indicate, but it is definitely related to the planned investment in Greece. In May 2021, the Greek subsidiary of the multinational group bought for 14 million two plots of land in the area of ​​Vouliia Prokalissi on Pikermio Avenue with a total area of ​​50,700 square meters. Some of the actions carried out by the company relate to the signing last December of an 8.1 million euro contract for the installation of a medium voltage power plant.

Microsoft Operations 4733 Hellas has signed a €8.1 million contract to install a medium voltage power plant.

According to Microsoft’s investment plan, one of the three data centers will be built on a total area of ​​85 hectares, consisting of two land plots in the Spata Business Park, with a capacity of 19.2 MW. The remaining two data centers with a capacity of 9.6 MW will be implemented in the Koropi business park, while all of them will be functionally interconnected with each other.

According to Microsoft’s schedule, construction of three data centers should be completed by 2025. “The establishment of three data centers is a key project that will place Greece on the Microsoft cloud infrastructure world map. This is a complex project that we do not discount. The most important thing for us is the influence that will be created for Greece and its economy. Through the use of cloud services, which will also be supported by Greek data centers, citizens and consumers will have fast and secure access to digital services from e-commerce to government services,” he said in an interview with “K” in the fall of 2022, the managing director of Microsoft Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Theodosius Michalopoulos. The data center complex in Greece is the first that Microsoft will build in the wider region of Southeast Europe, and the implementation of such facilities is inextricably linked to projects to create submarine fiber optic cables.