Google announced on Tuesday in an event in New Delhi that it will invest $15 billion over the next five years to establish a major AI data centre hub in Andhra Pradesh.
The 1-gigawatt facility will be located in the port city of Visakhapatnam and is described by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian as the largest AI hub the company is investing in outside the US.
Earlier state officials had estimated the investment at $10 billion.
The project comes amid rising competition among global tech giants to expand AI infrastructure. Google alone is expected to spend roughly $85 billion this year on building out data centre capacity to meet soaring demand for AI services, which require massive computing power and specialised facilities to link thousands of chips in clusters.
Microsoft and Amazon have already made substantial investments in Indian data centres, tapping into a market with nearly a billion internet users. Amazon intends to spend $12.7 billion developing cloud infrastructure in South Asia by 2030, while OpenAI is planning a 1-gigawatt data centre in the region.
Google’s new facility will be the largest in both capacity and investment in Asia, and forms part of a broader multi-billion-dollar expansion of the company’s data centre network across the region, including Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.
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