The digital highway of Italy starts from Turin. In the next few years it will lead to the opening of the country’s first data centers, to the development of two Cloud Regions – Piedmont and Lombardy – and to a center of excellence for artificial intelligence and the development of advanced information technology for companies, at Officine Grandi Turin repairs. The first Opening Future Day took place this morning in this factory converted into a technology hub, an initiative by Intesa Sanpaolo, Google and Noovle – the Tim group – which consolidates a collaboration born over a year ago in the name of the Cloud. A deal worth 1.7 billion euros and 30 thousand new jobs.
The need was concrete and ambitious: the digital transition of the main Italian group, among the top ten in Europe. Thus Intesa Sanpaolo turned to two leaders in IT services: Tim and Google Italy. The openingfuture.it platform was born from this network, a reference point for companies, startups and students who want to improve their digital skills and be ready for global competition. Today the platform becomes concrete: in the Ogr hub there is already a workspace bearing the three logos. “The banking group’s activities will be transferred to the regional hub and data centers that Intesa Sanpaolo has requested to build in Turin and Milan. In addition, they will be made available to the territory that can use them – said the president of Intesa Sanpaolo, Gian Maria Gros -Peter – 30,000 new jobs will be created and countless training opportunities for young people “.
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The initiative responds to a demand for digitization of local businesses, where the skills and infrastructures for the use of the Cloud are often lacking, and an important development opportunity, quantified in a survey presented by the University of Turin. today. “Thanks to the combined effect of investments and the increased productivity of companies that will migrate to new digital services, the investment in the construction and operation of data centers alone will generate economic benefits of 1.3 billion euros and approximately 21 thousand employees” , explained the rector of the University of Turin, Stefano Geuna, who with the professors Aldo Geuna and Francesco Ramella presented the results of the study. “To these must be added a further 400 million euros generated by higher productivity and spending on technological services by companies, from which another four thousand-seven thousand new jobs are estimated”. To which must be added the wealth of skills that will enable companies to compete at a supranational level. “As was done with the post-war motorways, Google is building the infrastructures of the future – said Fabio Fregi, country manager of Google Cloud Italy, announcing that Alphabet will invest a billion in the coming years in our country. The places that will host the data centers are those where the digital development of the economy will take place, is convinced Carlo d’Asaro Biondo, CEO of Noovle: “The main benefit – he explains – is to offer companies of all sizes the possibility of using the most advanced information services on request. world. It is a possibility of development, growth, inclusion for all “.
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