The government is preparing to make significant changes to the multimillion-dollar aid program with European funds for SMEs. digitization. The administration finalized new calls for the sect ‘digital kit’ For the distribution of subsidies in which larger companies will be allowed to participate for the first time and for the financing of certain programs connected with the application of artificial intelligence in company operations, Minister of Digital Transformation, José Luis EscrivaAt the Congress of Deputies.
The Ministry has decided that at least one of the new calls for help will be made privately. For companies with 50 to 250 employees -for those already considered mid-sized companies within the SME group- and for projects using artificial intelligence. All appeals so far have been designed to distribute aid to microenterprises with 0 to 3 employees and small companies with 3 to 10 employees and 10 to 50 employees.
The program to promote the digitalization of SMEs (“Digital Kit”) has a budget of approximately 3,000 million euros, linked to the European funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. Until now Aid was distributed at 1 billion 449 million lira, almost half of this budget.and the program has already arrived Up to 326,728 SME and self-employed workersAccording to the data Escrivá presented to the Congress this Monday.
Sustainable data centers
Escrivá also revealed that his department was working on a new “regulatory framework” – it is still being explored what kind of regulation would be required – to ensure that data centers are more sustainableAt a time when there is a real boom in the installation of new data processing facilities in Spain.
The government assures that it wants to position Spain as “an important hub in Southern Europe”, but it wants to do this by guaranteeing the sustainability of facilities characterized by very high consumption of electricity (powering computer servers and cooling equipment) and also water.
Escrivá argued that the new regulation serves to “regulate their location” and also set requirements to ensure that the centers “contain sufficient sustainability vectors” linked to electricity and water consumption. Digital Transformation will initiate a coordination process with other relevant ministries to regulate the sector at a time when demands for the installation of new processing centers continue to increase.