Google to invest $15bn to build Andhra AI hub

This multifaceted investment aligns with our vision to build a ‘Viksit Bharat.’ It will be a powerful force in democratising technology.

- Sejal Sharma

Tech giant Googleon Tuesday announced a $15 billion investment to build India’s first artificial intelligence hub in Visa-khapatnam — its largest facility outside the US.

The hub will feature a gigawatt-scale data centre built in partnership with Adani Group's Adani-ConneX and Airtel, along with a new international subsea cable landing to boost India’s internet speed and global connectivity, the ‘company said.

“Ttis part of a global network of Alcentres in 12 different countries, butitis the largest one that we will be building anywhere in the world outside of the US,” Google Cloud chief executive Thomas Kurian said at the ‘Bharat Al Shakti’ event in New Delhi, where the formal memorandum of understanding was signed with the Andhra Pra-desh government.

The data centre will scale to multiple gigawatts in future, Kur-ian added, noting that Google has been operating in India for 21 years with over 14,000 employees.