Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the northern California headquarters of Nvidia and venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital on Monday, meeting with senior technology executives, investors and researchers, as Greece seeks to attract more investment in AI, digital infrastructure and advanced technology.
At Nvidia, Mitsotakis met with senior executives led by John Josephakis, the company’s global vice president for business development. Discussions focused on investments in digital and computing infrastructure in Greece and on Nvidia’s role in helping startups, governments and technology companies develop and adopt AI applications.
Mitsotakis also toured Nvidia’s research center, where the company designs advanced semiconductors and computing systems that underpin the development and operation of leading AI models.
At Sequoia Capital, Mitsotakis met partners Konstantine Buhler and Doug Leone. The meeting brought together investors, researchers and founders working on AI applications in fields including medicine, education, automation and robotics.
The Silicon Valley meetings form part of Mitsotakis’ US visit, which also includes contacts with technology companies and investors in the San Francisco area before his participation in the UN General Assembly in New York.
The meetings come as Greece has sought to build a larger technology and digital-infrastructure ecosystem and attract international investment since 2019.
Recent projects discussed in Greece include Amazon Web Services’ Athens Local Zone, designed to provide in-country data storage and processing and support cloud and AI services, as well as further Amazon investments in satellite-internet infrastructure, green energy, research centers and advanced research units.
The country is also pursuing large-scale computing infrastructure.
Euronext Athens-listed Public Power Corp. (PPC), the dominant power utility in the country, has been developing plans for a major AI and data-center facility in the western Macedonia province, with a first 300-MW phase representing an investment of about 2.3 billion euros, including 1.2 billion euros from PPC and about 1.1 billion euros from a hyperscaler. The longer-term plan envisages expansion to 1 GW.
Other technology investments have included the development of a satellite production and export hub in Pallini by Open Cosmos Aegean, involving local engineers and the production, launch and operation of national microsatellites.
The center-right Greek government has simultaneously promoted the use of AI across public services, tourism, health care and civil protection, including cooperation with technology companies and research institutions.
