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Google on Tuesday announced that it will invest $15 billion to build a giant data center and artificial intelligence base in India.
“This investment of approximately $15 billion (USD) over five years (2026-2030) is Google’s largest investment in India to date,” the Google statement said.
“It is the largest AI hub that we are investing in anywhere outside of the US,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said at a ceremony in New Delhi.
“It is a part of a global network of AI centers in 12 different countries.”
The data center and AI hub will be built in the port city of Vishakhapatman in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh over the next five years.
The data center campus will have a capacity of 1-Gigawatt initially, but will be scaled to “multiple gigawatts,” Kurian said at the event, referring to the electricity demand required by data centers powering AI.
Kurian compared the project to “a digital backbone connecting different parts of India together.”
“Through it we will bring our industry-leading technology to enterprises and users in India, accelerating AI innovation and driving growth across the country.”
Google chief Sundar Pichai said on X that he had spoken to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the “landmark development.”
“This hub combines gigawatt-scale compute capacity, a new international subsea gateway, and large-scale energy infrastructure,” he wrote.
“Through it we will bring our industry-leading technology to enterprises and users in India, accelerating AI innovation and driving growth across the country.”
The demand for AI tools and solutions is seeing an exponential growth among businesses and individuals in India, which is projected to have more than 900 million internet users by year’s end.
Edited by: Wesley Rahn