A delegation from the government of Castilla-La Mancha travels to San Francisco to “establish” Meta’s investment in Talavera.

The implementation project of Meta – the technology that groups Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp – in Talavera de la Reina continues to advance with the construction of a data center campus. The Castilian-La Mancha delegation led by the Minister of Economy, Business and Employment, Patricia Franco, is making an institutional visit to the company’s offices in San Francisco yesterday, as well as other meetings to attract investment, which the executive is also holding in Los Angeles through the Institute of Foreign Promotion (IPEX), a travel organization area.

The first meeting on the institutional agenda was a meeting held by the Minister of Economy, Business and Employment at Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park. At the meeting, in which the advisor was accompanied by the Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Spanish Embassy in Los Angeles, Juan Luis Jimeno; General Director of the companies Xavier Rossel; IPEX Director Luis Noe and IPEX Foreign Investment Officer Carmelo Corral; Patricia Franco emphasized the great impact that the implementation of the data center campus will have in the city of Talavera and the region, both in terms of investment and job creation, and especially because of the high-tech component of a project of this magnitude. .

At the meeting, the adviser reiterated “the readiness of the regional government to decisively support the investment”, to continue close cooperation with multinationals for the implementation of this project. The meeting is one of a series of meetings and meetings the executive holds with Meta as part of a joint effort to develop a potential project.

This week, the president of the region, Emiliano García-Paige, praised Meta’s “determination” to “consolidate the installation project in Talavera de la Reina.” He commented on this during the conversations with the company during the festive events Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​from which the said commitment was extracted by “the third most important company in the world” about its installation in the Ciudad de la Ceramica.

“It may seem that it is not important, but it is and there is a lot,” said the president of Castilla-Manchego, who emphasized that the company “is restructuring and adjusting personnel in other areas”, but he confirmed the viability. His project in Talavera de la Reina, for which he was “full of hope”.

Other meetings in the United States

The meeting was the first of the institutional agenda that the councilor and the delegation led by him are going to hold this week in the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles, as part of an international mission that includes meetings with companies from the sectors in which the region is located. It has a strong position as an investment destination, such as data centers, renewable energies and especially green hydrogen and the audiovisual industry.

The Minister of Economy, Business and Employment, Patricia Franco, emphasized that the aim is to “position the potential of the region” to host these investment projects, “due to different factors such as the availability of land; Our strategic position and great hub A data economy like Gaia-X that is growing in our region. In addition, because of the great potential we have in the development of renewable energies for these projects.”

“The ICT sector is growing strongly in Castilla-La Mancha, with almost 23 percent growth in companies in the sector over the past eight years, which has also seen the creation of more than 2,300 new jobs in Castilla-La Mancha. La Mancha. During this period, it is practically 38 percent more,” he said.

“The information technology sector is the fifth largest contributor to the state of California’s GDP,” said Patricia Franco, who also noted that the trip aims to reinforce the region’s position as a premium destination for investment in sectors such as technology. renewable energy or the audiovisual industry.

“In the country, which is the first in international investment in the region, it increased in 2020, the last consolidated year, by 40 percent compared to the US investment in Castilla-La Mancha in 2015,” clarified the adviser. An increase that also coincides with an expansion of foreign investment by American companies.