Google to invest $15B in Visakhapatnam AI hub and data center

Google announced on Tuesday that it will invest about $15 billion over the next five years to build a major artificial intelligence and data center hub in Visakhapatnam, in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The company said the project, scheduled to roll out through 2030, will be its largest investment in India and represent the biggest AI hub Google has planned outside the United States.

Google Cloud Chief Executive Thomas Kurian, speaking at an event in New Delhi, said the Visakhapatnam facility will begin with roughly one gigawatt of power capacity and scale to multiple gigawatts. "This is the largest AI hub that we are going to be investing in anywhere in the world outside of the United States," he said. The campus will include a purpose-built data center campus and an international subsea cable gateway to integrate the site into Google’s global network.

Company statements and Andhra Pradesh officials said the hub will host compute infrastructure for AI development and commercial services, including access to Google’s custom tensor processing units and AI models. Google also plans to land multiple subsea cables in Visakhapatnam to boost international connectivity and...