Data centers, ‘one of the main drivers’ of Mexico’s economy in coming years: Thursday’s mañanera recapped

A bully information of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Thursday greeting property league was taken up by CloudHQ’s announcement that it volition put US $4.8 cardinal to physique six information centers successful Querétaro.

Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard subsequently spoke astir the economical payment concern successful information centers volition bring to Mexico, portion Sheinbaum commented connected the merchantability of a 25% involvement successful Banamex and the results of a caller sentiment poll.

Ebrard: Data centers volition assistance thrust economical growth 

Ebrard told reporters that the improvement of artificial quality and information halfway projects successful Mexico is inactive successful its infancy.

“What you’re seeing is the beginning, … the launch, due to the fact that it’s thing that is precise caller successful the full world,” helium said.

“… The bully happening is that we’re connected the wave,” Ebrard said earlier praising Sheinbaum, authorities governors and IT companies for their “foresight” successful helping Mexico to get connected that wave.

“These information centers volition let america … to bid our people, integrate services, integrate companies,” helium said.

Data centers volition thrust economical maturation successful Mexico successful coming years, according to Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard (left), shown present with the COO of U.S. tech steadfast CloudHQ, Keith Harney. (Saúl López Escorcia/Presidencia)

Ebrard said it was “very difficult” to accidental however overmuch information halfway and AI projects would adhd to Mexico’s GDP successful the adjacent term, but helium asserted that specified projects would beryllium “one of the main drivers” of the Mexican and planetary system successful the years ahead.

Mexican businessman’s acquisition of 25% involvement successful Banamex is ‘good news,’ says Sheinbaum

Sheinbaum said that businessman Fernando Chico Pardo’s acquisition of a 25% involvement successful Banamex is “good news.”

She said that Chico — Mexico’s eighth richest idiosyncratic — is “a antheral of bully reputation.”

Sheinbaum said that she understood that helium had reached a “good agreement” with Citigroup, which sold him the 25% involvement successful Banamex.

“They contacted maine to pass maine [of the transaction], which is important to know,” she said.

“So, … Banamex returns to a Mexican businessman successful a ineligible transaction that begins with a 25% [stake],” she said.

“I deliberation that it’s precise good; it’s bully news,” said Sheinbaum, who shares her maternal surname with Chico Pardo, though they are not related.

Sheinbaum: ‘People spot that things are going good successful the country’

A newsman noted that a caller canvass recovered that Sheinbaum has a precocious support standing among radical who identified themselves arsenic supporters of absorption parties, namely the Institutional Revolutionary Party (65% approval), the National Action Party (60%) and the Citizens Movement enactment (64%). The canvass conducted by Enkoll for the paper El País and W Radio detected an wide support standing of 79% for the president.

Sheinbaum acknowledged that she and her authorities person “a batch of fashionable support.”

In summation to a 79% wide support rating, a caller canvass recovered that supporters of absorption parties mostly approved of Sheinbaum. (Enkoll)

She said that 1 crushed wherefore her authorities is truthful fashionable is that it has stuck to its principles and hasn’t breached its promises.

Another reason, Sheinbaum said, is that “there is continuity successful the translation that began successful December 2018,” erstwhile erstwhile president Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office.

“… That’s wherefore we telephone [my administration] the 2nd communicative of the transformation,” she said.

“And the radical spot that things are going good successful the country,” said Sheinbaum, who is conscionable 5 days distant from completing her archetypal twelvemonth successful office.

“… There is acceptance that Mexico is doing good and that we’re going to proceed making progress. And that is what gives [us] fashionable support,” she said.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])