Google has announced plans to invest $15 billion over the next five years in setting an artificial intelligence hub in Visakhapatnam . On the occasion, Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared that he discussed the project with PM Narendra Modi . Pichai said that during his interaction with PM, he highlighted how the Google AI hub will help accelerate AI innovation and support India's growing digital economy.
The announcement came during 'Bharat AI Shakti' event hosted by Google in New Delhi.
In a post on Twitter, Pichai wrote, "Great to speak with India PM @narendramodi @OfficialINDIAai to share our plans for the first-ever Google AI hub in Visakhapatnam, a landmark development. This hub combines gigawatt-scale compute capacity, a new international subsea gateway, and large-scale energy infrastructure. Through it we will bring our industry-leading technology to enterprises and users in India, accelerating AI innovation and driving growth across the country."
Google's largest data centre outside the US
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said that the data centre in Andhra Pradesh would be the company's "largest AI hub" outside the United States. Google has committed to spending about $85 billion this year to build out data centre capacity as big tech companies invest heavily to build new infrastructure in their competition to meet booming demand for AI services.
He also stated, "We are incredibly proud of what today stands for. Google has been in India for a long time. It's our 21st year here. We have 14,000 people working for us across five locations, and we launched our cloud solutions in India several years ago. We also have two regions, New Delhi and Mumbai, and manufacture our devices here,".
The AI hub will offer a full stack of solutions using Google's proprietary TPUs (Processing Units), which are twice as power-efficient. Data will be housed locally to meet sovereign AI requirements, and Google will deploy its own models, including Gemini, Imagine, and Veo.
"The hub is designed to provide full AI infrastructure to serve not just our own needs but also the needs of entrepreneurs, enterprises, and commercial organizations in India," Kurian said.
AI requires enormous computing power, pushing demand for specialised data centres that enable tech companies to link thousands of chips together in clusters.
Adani Group and India's Airtel have partnered with Google to build the infrastructure for its new project, which also includes construction of a new international subsea gateway.
The announcement came during 'Bharat AI Shakti' event hosted by Google in New Delhi.
In a post on Twitter, Pichai wrote, "Great to speak with India PM @narendramodi @OfficialINDIAai to share our plans for the first-ever Google AI hub in Visakhapatnam, a landmark development. This hub combines gigawatt-scale compute capacity, a new international subsea gateway, and large-scale energy infrastructure. Through it we will bring our industry-leading technology to enterprises and users in India, accelerating AI innovation and driving growth across the country."
Google's largest data centre outside the US
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said that the data centre in Andhra Pradesh would be the company's "largest AI hub" outside the United States. Google has committed to spending about $85 billion this year to build out data centre capacity as big tech companies invest heavily to build new infrastructure in their competition to meet booming demand for AI services.
He also stated, "We are incredibly proud of what today stands for. Google has been in India for a long time. It's our 21st year here. We have 14,000 people working for us across five locations, and we launched our cloud solutions in India several years ago. We also have two regions, New Delhi and Mumbai, and manufacture our devices here,".
The AI hub will offer a full stack of solutions using Google's proprietary TPUs (Processing Units), which are twice as power-efficient. Data will be housed locally to meet sovereign AI requirements, and Google will deploy its own models, including Gemini, Imagine, and Veo.
"The hub is designed to provide full AI infrastructure to serve not just our own needs but also the needs of entrepreneurs, enterprises, and commercial organizations in India," Kurian said.
AI requires enormous computing power, pushing demand for specialised data centres that enable tech companies to link thousands of chips together in clusters.
Adani Group and India's Airtel have partnered with Google to build the infrastructure for its new project, which also includes construction of a new international subsea gateway.
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