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The internet sales chain Amazon will invest in United Kingdom 8 billion pounds ($10.5 billion) over the next five years to develop digital services that will create thousands of jobs, the UK government announced on Wednesday. Tech giant American and the British government.
The announcement comes timely for the new labour government, who promised strong economic growth to “rebuild” the country.
The investment, which will be used to build, operate and maintain data centers, could “support“The creation of more than 14 thousand jobs annually throughout the supply chain,” stressed the company.
The operation will be carried out by AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary.
“This £8 billion investment marks the start of economic recovery and shows that Great Britain “It is a place to do business,” UK Finance Minister Rachel Reeves said in a statement.
AWS announced in recent months multimillionaires investments in Germany, Spain and France, three countries of the European Union, which is discussing the creation of a “sovereign cloud” that would allow data to be stored and processed online.
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