{"id":1022691,"date":"2026-07-22T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022691"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:39:11","slug":"us-ambassador-sees-40-billion-tech-investment-wave-into-portugal-by-2031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/22\/us-ambassador-sees-40-billion-tech-investment-wave-into-portugal-by-2031\/","title":{"rendered":"US ambassador sees $40 billion tech investment wave into Portugal by 2031"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal is set to attract more than $40 \u200bbillion in US \u200btechnology investment by 2031, becoming home to \u200bEurope&#8217;s largest hub of American AI infrastructure investment, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal John Arrigo said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>At a ceremony marking \u200cthe successful \u2060connection \u2060of Google&#8217;s new Nuvem transatlantic cable, he urged Europe to follow Portugal&#8217;s example and build its digital future with trusted US partners or risk falling behind. <\/p>\n<p>He said Nuvem was &#8220;the clearest sign&#8221; of a deepening US-Portugal partnership, adding that &#8220;more than $40 \u200bbillion in US tech investment is \u2060expected in \u200cPortugal by 2031, making it the \u200blargest concentration \u200bof American AI infrastructure investment in all \u2060of Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal is set to attract more than $40 \u200bbillion in US \u200btechnology investment by 2031, becoming home to \u200bEurope&#8217;s largest hub of American AI infrastructure investment, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal John Arrigo said on Tuesday. At a ceremony marking \u200cthe successful \u2060connection \u2060of Google&#8217;s new Nuvem transatlantic cable, he urged Europe to follow Portugal&#8217;s example and build its digital future with trusted US partners or risk falling behind. He said Nuvem was &#8220;the clearest sign&#8221; of a deepening US-Portugal partnership, adding that &#8220;more than $40 \u200bbillion in US tech investment is \u2060expected in \u200cPortugal by 2031, making it the \u200blargest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022697,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022691\/revisions\/1022697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}