Google Cloud Invests $300 Million in Brazil, Opens New Branches and Engineering Center

Sina Technology News Beijing time on June 15 morning news, according to reports, the cloud computing department of Google announced on Tuesday that since 2017, it has invested 310 million US dollars in the South American country Brazil to build cloud computing infrastructure,Google also announced that it will open a new branch in Brazil and launch an engineering technology center.

On the same day, Google held a special event “Google in Brazil” in Sao Paulo, the economic center of Brazil. The executives said that Google’s investment in cloud computing in Brazil is to help Google’s Brazilian customers expand service product lines, improve digital operation capabilities, and open up new business opportunities.

It is said that in the past five years, Google’s cloud computing division has invested a total of 1.6 billion Brazilian reals (about 310 million US dollars) in Brazil for cloud computing infrastructure in Brazil.

Google also announced on the same day that it will set up an engineering technology center in São Paulo, and next year, it will add a Google cloud computing branch.

In January of this year, Google announced that it would recruit 200 engineers in the Brazilian market this year. These human resources will be invested in Google’s various business plans in Brazil, including enhancing the privacy protection of Internet users, improving network security, and developing tools to combat harmful content on the Internet. new technology.

By opening a new facility next year, Google will double the number of engineers in Brazil. This also means that Google will implement a “local talent strategy” in the largest country in South America, and these engineers will develop products not only for local users in Brazil, but also for the global market.

Google executives said that the opening of a new engineering technology center in Brazil means a new step in Google’s plan to expand technology operations in the country, which will become Google’s second engineering technology center in Brazil. In 2006, Google opened an engineering center in Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s fourth-largest city.

Google’s investment plan also means that the competition between Amazon and Google, the two major US cloud computing giants, in the Brazilian market will intensify. Amazon’s cloud computing business (currently the world’s largest industry leader) entered Brazil early, and in 2020, Amazon announced that it would invest 1 billion Brazilian reals (about 195 million US dollars) to build a data center facility in Sao Paulo.

In February, the Brazilian government’s space agency and Amazon’s cloud computing unit signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly advance Brazil’s long-term space development plan.