Google Announces AI Hub In India, Its Largest Outside US

Google on Tuesday said it would invest $15 billion in India over the next five years as it announced a giant data centre and artificial intelligence base in Andhra Pradesh, its largest AI hub outside the US.

The US tech giant will build a 1-gigawatt data centre campus in the port city of Visakhapatnam, combining AI infrastructure, large-scale energy sources, and an expanded fibre-optic network.

Google has partnered with the Adani Group for the AI data centre campus. This is Google's largest ever investment in the country.

"It's the largest AI hub that we are going to be investing in anywhere in the world outside of the US," Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said during an event in Delhi to sign the formal agreement.

Google has plans for the centre to eventually "scale to multiple gigawatts", he said.

The event was also attended by Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Ashwini Vaishnaw, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, and state IT Minister Nara Lokesh.

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Vaishnaw thanked Google for the investment.

"This digital infrastructure will go a long way in meeting goals of our India AI vision," he said.

Naidu called it a "very happy day", while Lokesh said the deal was a "game-changing investment" that came after "a year of intense discussions and relentless effort".

"It is a massive leap for our state's digital future, innovation, and global standing," he wrote on X.

"This is just the beginning," he added.

The move comes amid intensifying competition among tech giants, which are spending heavily on building new data centre infrastructure to meet booming demand for AI services.

Microsoft and Amazon have already poured billions into building data centres in India, which is projected to have more than 900 million internet users by year's end.

OpenAI has said it will open an India office later this year, with its chief, Sam Altman, noting that ChatGPT usage in the country had grown fourfold over the past year.

(With agency inputs)