Poland’s Polsat Plus Group has entered into a strategic partnership with Google Cloud.
The first such agreement in the country, it will allow Google to purchase clean and green electricity and Polsat Plus Group to accelerate its technological development and digital transformation.
Clean energy is a new, third business segment of Polsat Plus Group’s Strategy 2023+, pursued in cooperation with ZE PAK power engineering company, that the group has been developing since 2021 in addition to the two existing pillars, namely media/content and telecommunications.
As part of the strategic partnership, the IT staff of Polsat Plus Group companies (i.a. Polkomtel, Netia, Oktawave) will gain strong training support from Google in the field of Google’s latest cloud solutions, with particular stress on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) skills. This will help the company fully exploit the computational power of the cloud to the benefit of the new solutions which will be implemented for the Group’s customers.
Commenting on the partnership, Zygmunt Solorz, founder and main shareholder of Polsat Plus Group, said: “I am delighted that Polsat Plus Group and Google Cloud have been brought together in this strategic partnership which will be implemented in both, the area of state-of-the-art technologies as well as the area of energy transformation. It is great news for the future and for the development of our Group whose three main pillars of operations include media, telecommunications and production of clean power”.
Piotr Zak, VP of the supervisory board, Polsat Plus Group, added: “I am proud that together with Google Cloud we have been able to develop an agreement which is unique, both in Poland and in the region. We will be supplying clean and green energy to Google Cloud from one of our wind farms, while thanks to the cloud solutions which, what should be stressed here, also save energy, we will continue developing even faster in the technology sphere. The investments in the development of clean, renewable sources of energy are the practical implementation of our ESG strategy.
“Mainly via Netia and Oktawave, who specialise in offering cloud solutions, we would also like to offer Google Cloud-based solutions, especially to our group’s business clients”.
Tara Brady, president, Google Cloud EMEA, said: “We are very pleased to partner with Polsat Plus Group to support their digital transformation goals and more broadly Poland’s transition towards locally produced, carbon-free electricity.
“This renewable energy coupled with our carbon-intelligent computing platform helps us to run meaningfully cleaner cloud regions and offices”.
