The technology giant plans to invest the large sum in in an effort improve cybersecurity in cooperation with the European country's armed forces.

The news was announced on Monday (17.02.25) in a joint press conference with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Microsoft President Brad Smith.

In the press conference, it was announced that Microsoft had confirmed its decision to invest USD 700 million in a follow-up to the firm's USD 1 billion Polish data centre project that opened in 2023.

The Microsoft president said that the second phase of data centre development would start immediately and conclude in the summer of 2026.

The aim of the investment is to increase the data centre's available computing power, which will be used mainly to improve cybersecurity in cooperation with the Polish armed forces.

President Tusk said at the conference: "Thousands of Polish scientists, managers, start-ups will have those state-of-the-art tools at their disposal.

"We are talking about data centres, the (computing - PAP) cloud, AI, they will grow disproportionately each year."