O Google will install on Portugal a center that will serve to aggregate service providers working with the multinational in the regions of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The new operation will create 500 jobs and the offices are due to open in June.
Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa announced this Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (where President João Lourenço is also located), that Google will open a service center and technology hub for Europe , Middle East and Africa in the Municipality of Oeiras.
The center will operate in Oeiras, a neighboring municipality of Lisbon, where some technological multinationals also have facilities. These service providers are used in various Google operations and allow you, for example, to temporarily increase resources for a project or have access to skills that the company does not have in-house.
António Costa said that this investment by Google in his speech, which opened the conference and was dedicated to presenting Portugal to foreign investors as a competitive country, especially in terms of capturing startup and technological investments.
