Heads in the cloud
Technology
“I don’t believe that any average developer could just enter this market and expect to be successful just like that,” suggests Oliwer Goliński, a data centre expert at 7R
Data centres are not much talked about and often seem to be hidden away from the glare of publicity – but the demand for them is strong and looks set to grow and grow
In May last year, Microsoft announced a USD 1 bln investment in what it has dubbed the ‘Polish Digital Valley’. Much of this is to be spent on building a data centre region in Poland, which is to be developed in a strategic partnership with the country’s cloud service provider Chmura Krajowa. However, Microsoft is not the first tech giant to roll out its services in Poland – it has already been beaten to it by Google Cloud, which has also signed a strategic partnership with Chmura Krajowa and officially opened for business in April this year. Overall, Google’s investment amounts to USD 2 bln. Against such a backdrop, it should hardly be surprising that Cushman & Wakefield’s ‘Data Centre European Secondary Markets’ report published at the beginning of the year identified Warsaw as a hot spot for data centre development. At the time Joanna Sinkiewicz, the head of the industrial and logistics agency at Cushman & Wakefield, declared:
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