01/21/2016 10h43

Investe SP attracts R$ 12.8-billion investment for Campinas and Sorocaba data center hubs

Agency President, Juan Quirós, and Mayor Jonas Donizette expect 40,000 new direct jobs

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The investment will be treated as a priority by Investe

Investe São Paulo president, Juan Quirós, received on January 12, in Campinas, representatives from TechxAct, an American company based in Washington which has projects for implementing date center hubs of international scope for storage and administration of global customer data.

The company is to invest about R$ 12.8 billion in Campinas and Sorocaba, generating approximately 20,000 direct jobs in each city and 43,000 indirect jobs throughout the total execution of the program.

At the request of the mayor of Campinas, Jonas Donizetti, Quirós showed the company's directors the services of Investe São Paulo. The chairman, G.H. Paryavi, and the vice-president of TechxAct, Carlos Tavares, explained that in 2030 the world will have 250 billion devices connected to the Internet.

"Everyone will depend on the cloud data storage and management. Data centers are already the largest service providers in the world. It is a sector that ensures unique stability, profitability and growth. And our intention is to create a Silicon Valey in Campinas," affirmed the company's vice-president, who has a hub in operation in Loundoun County, Virginia.

The project is also known as Universal Clouds, the first global data management cloud. "All industries will be included in our business in a very near future. Campinas has a workforce that can be trained for this project, which will store, for example, essential data from Middle East, Europe, and Asia. This is because Brazil has good relations with all countries of the world, and does not suffer rejection, which is a major factor in favor of the installation of data center hubs," said Carlos Tavares.

Among the services of the data center hubs to be installed in Campinas and Sorocaba is also the troubleshooting in the global data storage systems. "To have an idea, one second of downtime in these systems represents a loss of US$ 80 million (about R$ 320 million)," said the chairman H.G. Paryavi, also remembering that the investment return exceeds the expectations.

The mayor of Campinas said that the city has all the conditions to receive the investment and that there is a combination of unprecedented forces at the moment between the City Hall, the State Government and other agencies involved, such as water and energy suppliers (present at the meeting), that the investors will not find in other states.

After the meeting, Juan Quirós immediately called a team of experts and two directors of Investe SP to travel to Campinas and start, on that same night, the technical meetings in order to learn the investors' needs and detail the project. "We know that the company intends to create a triangle in South America. We will sign a memorandum of understanding and strive to keep the triangle base in two cities of the state of São Paulo: Campinas and Sorocaba. The other end will probably be in Recife. What matters is that São Paulo wants and will have these 40,000 direct jobs," he concludes.