Microsoft: With an investment like this, the Chancellor sometimes stops by

When large investments are made, Olaf Scholz said on Thursday at the Microsoft Germany headquarters in Berlin, the Federal Chancellor sometimes comes by. “Same with this one.”

That sounded a bit routine considering that this was after all the most valuable company in the world announcing the largest investment it has ever made in Germany – and in the most hyped technology in a long time. But Microsoft and Scholz have the shared talent of presenting exciting things in a dry manner.

The Chancellor was the star guest at the Microsoft press conference, at which Microsoft President Brad Smith and Germany boss Marianne Janik announced an investment totaling 3.2 billion euros for 2024 and 2025: in data centers and further training in the field of AI. The company wants to build new computing capacity in the North Rhine-Westphalian cities of Bergheim and Bedburg as well as in the Frankfurt am Main region – especially for artificial intelligence applications. Scholz said it was “a good morning for our country.”

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