a bet of more than 500 million euro. And ‘that Amazon is preparing to make on Italy, starting with an initial investment of 150 million Euros for the construction of a large warehouse for storage and logistics at the gates of Rome. The next could be those related to the program to create beautiful country in some data centers in the next twelve months allocandoli in old plants Enel. This ad by Francesco Starace, Enel had said that Amazon was among the companies interested in acquiring the three plants in disuse to turn them into server farms. The founder and CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos will be in Italy these days and will meet Renzi in Florence. To Amazon in Lazio it is in fact the largest investment of a foreign company in Italy since Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced in April with Enel’s plan to speed up the ultra-broadband and strengthen the optical fiber in the country.
The new center
The new center will open in the autumn of 2017 and will employ 1,200 people. You will find in Passo Corese, part of the municipality of Fara in Sabina (Ri), 30 kilometers from Rome. Amazon will invest 150 million Euros in the new business unit of 60,000 square meters.
1200 jobs
After the thousand jobs offered by Amazon Italian first maxi center, that opened in 2011 in Castel san Giovanni in the province of Piacenza, today the company announced further 1200 opportunities in the next three years. “This new business unit – said said Roy Perticucci, Amazon Vice-President Operations Europe- will be integrated into the Amazon network which counts twenty-nine distribution centers in seven European countries, which allow us to respond to growth in demand and keeping our promises fast and reliable deliveries to customers in Italy. ” An Italy that despite lagging behind in the Union remains for Internet use, with less than half of the people reached by the ultra-wideband, has seen an exponential growth of online shopping doubled from 2011 to the end of this year. Digital transactions estimated will top 19 billion euro at the end of 2016, according to the National Association of ecommerce Netcomm.
The research and development center in Turin
not only Rome: Amazon also announced a new development center in Turin to develop the artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities of Alexa, the voice assistant cloud-based Amazon, which supports Amazon Echo, Echo dot , Amazon Fire TV Amazon Tap. Here the American giant will take on experienced researchers Machine learning (branch of computer science that is based on algorithms that enable systems to perform predictive analyzes from large collections without those systems are specially programmed). To get started, will be 10 open positions for researchers dedicated to speech recognition and natural language understanding. The new center, which will open by the end of 2016, will be dedicated to the advancement of speech recognition and natural language understanding. “We chose Turin for the amount of talent that can be drawn and for the presence of the universities in the city,” says Rohit Prasad, vice president and chief scientist for Alexa. The Piedmont will be the fifteenth center of Amazon development in Europe.
Investing in Europe
the 2015 was a record year for the creation of the Amazon jobs in Europe: over 10,000 new permanent positions, which led to the European staff of the company have in fact been created to overcome a total of 40,000 employees. Since 2010, Amazon has invested over 15 billion euro in Europe in infrastructure and services for the distribution, in services to customers in regional data centers and in research and development. Since the start of its activities in Italy in 2010, Amazon has invested in the country more than 450 million Euros and created 1,700 jobs.
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