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2021 Government Networks and Smart Cities

Buenos Aires province aims to have its own data center in October 2022

A national and international public tender for the construction of the modular data center, which should be ready a year later, will be launched next month, said Sandra D’Agostino, Buenos Aires Digital Government Undersecretary, yesterday during the opening panel of Government Networks and Smart Cities, organized by Grupo Convergencia.

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