Satya reaches once more into his wallet
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced a $2.2 billion investment to advancecloud and AI infrastructure in Malaysia.Microsoft has been in Malaysia for 32 years, but the investment announced this week is the company's largest in the country. Spread over four years, it will be spent on building cloud and AI infrastructure, creating AI skilling opportunities for another 200,000 people in the country, and supporting the growth of Malaysia's developer community.
Malaysia is Nadella's latest stop on his tour of countries in the region that aren't China. While Malaysia does not have Indonesia's 3.1 million-member GitHub community, nor its population, the number of the nation's developers who have used GitHub grew to 680,000 in 2023, a 28 percent year-on-year rise.Microsoft is keen to"drive AI adoption across key industries" and encourage the public sector to use the technology.
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