INFRASTRUCTURE
Google picks Visakhapatnam for India’s first, gw-scale, $15-billion AI hub
- IBJ Bureau
- Oct 15, 2025
Google has announced a $15-billion investment to set up a large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) hub in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, its biggest investment outside the US so far.
The facility will integrate AI infrastructure, data centres, renewable energy capacity and a new subsea gateway, marking the first gigawatt-scale data centre campus in the country, Google has said in a release.
Data centres are becoming increasingly critical as AI models, cloud services and digital platforms demand massive computing power and low-latency connectivity. Companies are investing heavily to localise infrastructure, improve resilience and meet real-time processing needs.
The five-year project (2026–2030) is expected to create over 1 lakh jobs, Civil Aviation Minister N Ram Mohan Naidu has told mediapersons on the sidelines of an event held in New Delhi to announce the unveiling of the AI hub.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has said: “We will scale the data centre to multiple gw (giga watt). It is a part of network of data centres that we are building, and we will be making Vishakhapatnam a global connectivity hub. We are also bringing our subsea cable infrastructure to Vishakhapatnam, and we will be connecting it to other cables.”
Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, State IT Minister Nara Lokesh and Mr Kurian were among the key attendees at the event.
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