In recent years Poland has been seeing “rapid growth” and is rising to become “an international software engineering hub” as explained by Thomas Kurian Google Cloud CEO. Therefore, it’s the perfect place to start construction of a new data centre, enhancing the range to serve Central and Eastern Europe. 

The estimated cost of the build will be 3 billion euros, this is in conjunction with more developments from Google, where they will be also spending 600 million euros on expansion of data centres in Hamina, Finland and 1 billion on data centre construction in the Netherlands.

Google Cloud currently operates 20 different regions with 61 availability zones. The data centre in Poland will be in Warsaw the countries capital. This new build will follow Google’s template and feature three availability zones and launch with all standard Google cloud services. In an interview with CNBC Thursday, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said Europe is a “big area of focus” for the business. “We’re actually growing faster in terms of people, customers, revenue here than in any other part of the world,” “People here in Europe are really beginning to adopt cloud,” he said. “At some point there was reluctance to adopt cloud. I think now they see the value that cloud can deliver.”

Google has always been at the forefront of advancement in tech even regarding data centre management. Their data centre facilities in Finland uses an advanced cooling system which uses seawater from Bay of Finland to reduce energy use. We are assured that the new build in Warsaw, Poland will be at the highest end of the tech scale providing Europe the much-needed Google Cloud data it demands.