Google Announces First AI Hub in India (www.googlecloudpresscorner.com)

Google today announced its first AI hub in India, a roughly $15 billion investment over 2026–2030 to build a gigawatt-scale data center campus in Visakhapatnam that will deploy Google’s full AI stack. Announced at Bharat AI Shakti with Indian and Andhra Pradesh officials and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, the hub is Google’s largest India investment to date and is pitched as a catalyst for U.S.–India tech cooperation and India’s Viksit Bharat 2047 AI goals. An analysis commissioned by Google estimates the project will generate at least $15 billion in U.S. GDP over five years through cloud/AI adoption and cross-border activity. Technically, the hub combines large-scale compute, purpose-built data centers, expanded fiber, and a new international subsea gateway (multiple cables landing in Visakhapatnam tied into Google’s ~2 million miles of cable) to deliver higher capacity and lower latency across India and beyond. Developed with partners AdaniConneX and Airtel and leveraging R&D in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune, the site will add gigawatt-scale energy capacity with new transmission lines, clean generation and storage to support energy-hungry AI workloads. For ML practitioners and businesses this means more local, low-latency training/inference capacity, greater resilience and route diversity for data flows, and stronger infrastructure to scale large models, accelerate R&D, and broaden access to AI services across the region.