(Boursier.com) — Microsoft will invest 6.69 billion euros, or nearly $7.2 billion, to develop new data centers in Aragon, in northeastern Spain, which is becoming a major center of cloud computing in Europe also Amazon, indicates Reuters. The regional government of Aragon said Microsoft had applied for a building permit for data centers at a site outside the city of Zaragoza. The Redmond giant’s investment in Aragon will be spread over 10 years. Microsoft previously announced an investment of 2.1 billion euros in data centers in Madrid. Reuters notes that Microsoft is following the lead of rival AWS (Amazon), turning towards Aragon. Amazon announced last month that it would invest €15.7 billion over the next ten years to build data centers in the region.
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