2016-2017
In 2016, the Italian Government nominates the area as the new headquarters of the ECMWF data centre
From Tobacco Factory to Supercomputing
In 2016, the Italian Government nominated the area of the former Manifattura Tabacchi (a tobacco factory) as the new headquarters for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The following year the Government ratified the International Headquarters Agreement.
This agreemente paved the way to the construction of a new technology hub (the Dama technopole), focused on the development of supercomputing and Big Data, with applications to challenges related to climate change, sustainability, health, industrial production, and social sciences.
