Microsoft plans data centre venture in Greece

The news was announced on Monday by Microsoft and Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis) Michel Euler/AP)

Microsoft has announced plans to build three data centre sites in greater Athens, providing a badly needed investment of up to one billion US dollars (£772m) to the Greek economy which has been hammered by the pandemic.

The news was announced on Monday by the US tech giant and Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and follows nine months of confidential negotiations for an agreement that also includes digital-skills training programmes for some 100,000 government and private sector workers as well as educators and students.