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MICROSOFT announced has the initiative to build a data center in Malaysia to provide cloud services and train about one million Malaysians
Microsoft announced this on Monday, adding that the initiative was to improve their digital skills, creating additional jobs in the country.
The planned data hub will “deliver trusted cloud services locally, with world-class data security, privacy, and the ability to store data in-country’’, the U.S. software giant said in a statement.
Microsoft said it aims to skill an additional one million Malaysians by the end of 2023, as part of plans that it believes could “contribute more than 19,000 new direct and indirect jobs.’’
This could “help generate up to 4.6 billion U.S. dollars in new revenues” over the next four years, Microsoft said.
Speaking at the Microsoft announcement, Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyddin Yassin said the government aims to store 80 percent of its data in Microsoft’s cloud by the end of 2022.
“Big data can have a needle-moving impact and is in itself, an engine of economic growth,’’ said Trade and Industry Minister Azmin Ali, adding the government would lead by example.’’
Malaysia has long had ambitions to be South-East Asian information technology and communications hub.
In the 1990s, former prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad oversaw the building of the town of Cyberjaya next to the new administrative capital of Putrajaya, about a half an hour’s drive from Kuala Lumpur, the biggest city. (dpa/NAN)
– Apr. 19, 2021 @ 13:42 GMT
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