"Microsoft" invests $ 2.2 billion in artificial intelligence in Malaysia

Microsoft intends to invest $ 2.2 billion to create a digital infrastructure in Malaysia, in a move that is the latest in a series of major bets on the increasing interest of Asia as a market for technology. The company plans to spend money over a four -year period and to create the infrastructure of woolly and artificial intelligence, CEO Satia Nadella said during a visit to Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. The company will also train 200,000 people in the field of artificial intelligence in Malaysia and work with the government to improve the capabilities of cyber security in the country. ‘Microsoft’ is competing with companies like ‘Alphabet’, ‘Amazon Dot com’ and ‘Ali Baba Group Holding’ for companies in Southeast Asia, a fast -pitched area of ​​more than 650 million people. Technology companies are working to expand their operations in Malaysia and neighboring countries such as Singapore to diversify their markets away from China, in order to reduce geopolitical risks amid tension between Beijing and Washington. Artificial intelligence supports “Microsoft” to achieve profits that exceed expectations, Nadella said at the end of a lightning rounds of three countries in the region: “We are committed to supporting the transformation in the field of artificial intelligence in Malaysia and ensuring that all the residents of the country benefit.” In Kuala Lumpur, he met Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim before addressing business leaders and developers during the company event. A major investment is the biggest investment Microsoft has made since Malaysia’s entry 32 years ago, and emphasizes the efforts the company has made to win in Asia. Nadila also promised to provide at least $ 7 billion to expand the company’s services from Japan to India, while promoting artificial intelligence as a growth car, and appealing to countries to increase the investment in technology. In Malaysia, the southern Johor Bahro region – linked by a bridge in Singapore – becomes one of the basic destinations for the emerging data centers for artificial intelligence in Asia. Ercivia worked together last year with the local utility industry “YTL) Power International to build a data for artificial intelligence at a cost of $ 4.3 billion in the region. Amazon spending on artificial intelligence at all levels is that its fruit still assumes artificial intelligence at the beginning of the Southeastern Asia, but he has the ability to add a trillion dollar to the economy of the According to a region of Malaysia, from Malaysia, some of the Malaysia, which is a good version of an economy, according to a region, of Malaysia, is a good version of 115 in the economy of 20, of a region, of the place where Malaysia is issued. Similar attempts to develop cloud and digital infrastructure of artificial intelligence.