American tech giant Intel announced on Friday that it would invest $4.6 billion (18.7 billion Polish zloty) to build a new semiconductor chip assembly and testing facility near Wroclaw, Poland, as part of a multi-billion-dollar investment drive across Europe to build chip capacity.

The new facility will employ 2,000 workers and create several thousand additional jobs during the construction phase and hiring by suppliers adding to the 4,000 employees that Intel already has in Poland, including at the firm’s largest European research and development facility in Gdańsk.

The company, which has operated in Poland for 30 years, stated that it chose Poland because of its infrastructure and available talent. It is close to its planned facility in Germany and its location in Ireland.

The facility’s design and planning will begin immediately, with construction beginning after European Commission permission and projected to be completed by 2027. The site in Poland will receive chips created on silicon wafers at the Irish and German plants, assemble them into final products, and then test them for performance and quality. 

Several other tech firms have also invested in Poland recently, including Visa’s global technology and product hub and Microsoft’s first data centre in the region. Intel also has plans to invest up to $100 billion to build potentially the world’s largest chip-making complex in the U.S. state of Ohio.