{"id":1663626,"date":"2022-09-29T06:56:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T10:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663626"},"modified":"2022-09-29T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T10:57:08","slug":"google-to-build-its-first-cloud-region-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-to-build-its-first-cloud-region-in-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to build its first cloud region in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgoogle-to-build-its-first-cloud-region-in-greece%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663626&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>ATHENS (Reuters) \u2013     Alphabet Inc\u2019s Google will set up its first cloud region in Greece, the company said on Thursday, giving a boost to the country\u2019s efforts to become a world cloud computing hub.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is estimated to contribute some 2.2 billion euros  ($2.13 billion) to Greece\u2019s economic output and create some 20,000 jobs by 2030, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Since taking office in 2019, Mitsotakis\u2019s conservative government has stepped up moves to diversify the economy and attract foreign investment and high tech companies to the country which emerged from a decade-long financial crisis in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we are very pleased to be announcing our first cloud region in Greece which will provide storage and cloud services for Google customers,\u201d said Adaire Fox-Martin, president of Google Cloud International, announcing the investment at an event in Athens.<\/p>\n<p>The investment would enable organisations to better use their data, help improve low latency and ensure users\u2019 security in the face of cybersecurity threats, she said.<\/p>\n<p>A cloud region usually is based around a cluster of data centres.    <\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s investment comes two years after Microsoft Corp. decided to build a data centre hub in the country. <\/p>\n<p>Amazon Inc\u2019s cloud computing division also opened its first office in Greece last year to support what it said was a growing number of companies and public sector agencies using its cloud services. <\/p>\n<p>($1 = 1.0333 euros)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou. Editing by Jnae Merriman)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/google-to-build-its\/attachment\/president-of-google-cloud-international-adaire-fox-martin-visits-greece\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S0IM-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S0IM-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/google-to-build-its\/attachment\/president-of-google-cloud-international-adaire-fox-martin-visits-greece-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S0J9-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S0J9-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/google-to-build-its\/attachment\/president-of-google-cloud-international-adaire-fox-martin-visits-greece-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S0IN-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S0IN-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/google-to-build-its\/attachment\/president-of-google-cloud-international-adaire-fox-martin-visits-greece-4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S0IO-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S0IO-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS (Reuters) \u2013 Alphabet Inc\u2019s Google will set up its first cloud region in Greece, the company said on Thursday, giving a boost to the country\u2019s efforts to become a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}