Microsoft announced on Monday that it plans to invest four billion euros in the development of its cloud and AI infrastructures in France.
The investment, unveiled on the occasion of the "Choose France" summit held today in Versailles, represents the largest investment ever made in the country by the IT group, which has been present in France for 41 years.
The project will see the addition of up to 25,000 latest-generation GPU processors by the end of 2025, via the expansion of existing sites in the Paris and Marseille regions.
It also plans to open a new site near Mulhouse to house its next-generation data centers in the Grand Est region.
In a press release, Microsoft explains that these investments will enable it to meet the growing demand from French private and public organizations of all sizes, who wish to take advantage of the computing power associated with AI.
At the same time, the group intends to carry out an AI training and support plan for French startups, with the ambition of training one million people and supporting some 2,500 French startups by 2027.
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Microsoft Corporation is the world's leader in the design, development and marketing of operating systems and software programs for PC's and servers. The group also builds and sells computer equipment. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of operating systems and application development tools (47.9%): primarily for servers (Azure, SQL Server, Windows Server, Visual Studio, System Center, GitHub, etc.) and (Windows);
- development of cloud-based software applications (23%): programs for productivity (Microsoft 365; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher and Access), integrated management and customer relationship management (Dynamics 365), online file sharing and management (OneDrive), and unified and collaborative communications (Skype and Microsoft Teams);
- sale of video gaming hardware and software (7.3%) : mainly Xbox;
- enterprise services (3.6%);
- sale of computers, tablets and accessories (2.6%);
- other (15.6%).
The United States accounts for 50.4% of net sales.