Google to invest on AI infra in AP $15 bn To partner Adani for data centre

 

 

IN ITS biggest ever investment in India, tech giant Google on Tuesday said it will invest USD 15 billion in building an AI infrastructure hub in Andhra Pradesh, which would include a gigawatt-scale data centre in partnership with Adani Group. The project is expected to create 5,000–6,000 direct jobs and 20,000–30,000 total jobs in Andhra Pradesh. The AI hub at Visakhapatnam will be Google’s largest outside the US and include a data centre fuelled by clean energy and a fibre-optic network. Business tycoon Gautam Adani said his company AdaniConneX would partner with Google on the project, along with Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest mobile operator. The USD 15 billion will be invested over the next five years (2026-2030).

 

“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 at an event here to sign the formal agreement. Google joins a growing list of US tech giants ramping up investments in India amid the country’s accelerating AI boom. Amazon.Com Inc has announced plans to invest USD 12.7 billion in cloud infrastructure by 2030, while OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is preparing to establish a 1-gigawatt data centre in the region.