Prime Minister Donald Tusk met on Thursday in Warsaw with the President of Alphabet and Google Sunday Picha. – Today we sign a memorandum on the use of artificial intelligence in energy, cybersecurity and other fields – said Pichai after meeting the head of the Polish government.
– We assume that in this way we will contribute to growth Polish GDP by 8 percent – said Pichai. He added that Tusk talked about “about the huge opportunities of Poland in the field of artificial intelligence.”
– Ambitions and talents give Poland a new position in European innovation – said the head of Alphabet and Google.
He added that Poland is currently the largest engineering hub Google, over 2,000 employees and was built for over 20 years.
He also informed that the company allocates $ 5 million in Poland for training in Poland in the next 5 years.
Giant investments in Poland
This is not the first Pichaia visit to Poland. In 2019, he participated in Central and Eastern European Innovation Roundtable, among others Together with the then prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki and business representatives from the region. In 2021 he inaugurated the Google Cloud region in Warsaw, during which he also talked to Morawiecki. He also visited Warsaw in 2022 as part of a visit to Europe and also met with the then prime minister.
In April 2021, Google launched the Google Cloud region in Warsaw, i.e. a cloud data and service center. During the inauguration of the investment, an increase in the performance and speed of applications using Google Cloud services and the availability and stability of Google clouds were announced. At that time it was 25. Such a center in the world and the first in Central and Eastern Europe. The Warsaw center consists of three independently operating access zones, connected by a super -fast network, which protects against possible disturbances in the operation of services.
A year later, in March 2022, Google announced further investments in Poland, worth PLN 2.7 billion, intended for the Engineering Center for the Development of Cloud Technology, which is located at the office purchased by the company in Wola – The Warsaw Hub at the Daszyński roundabout. It was reported that ultimately 2.5 thousand would be able to work in the center. people. In 2023, Google in Poland employed about 1.4 thousand. people. The company informed that the Warsaw Center is the largest center for the development of Google cloud technology in Europe.
Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet; It offers such products and platforms as: search engine, maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Chrome and YouTube.
Source of the main photo: PAP/Paweł Supernak