In one of its largest-ever investments in India, Google announced on Tuesday that it will spend $15 billion over the next five years to build data center capacity for an artificial intelligence powerhouse in Andhra Pradesh.
At an event in New Delhi, Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud, declared, “It’s the largest AI hub that we are going to be investing in anywhere in the world outside of the U.S. The Alphabet Inc. unit’s one gigawatt data center campus will be located in Visakhapatnam, a port city. The officials of the southern Indian state had previously estimated the investment to be $10 billion.
The action was taken as huge IT businesses are becoming more competitive and investing more in new data centres. AI requires enormous computing power, pushing demand for specialized data centers that enable tech companies to link thousands of chips together in clusters. Microsoft and Amazon have already poured billions into building data centres in India, a key growth market for the global tech giants where nearly a billion users access the internet.
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