U.S.-based tech giant Google announced on Tuesday a $15 billion investment to build a large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) and data center hub in India, marking the company’s biggest single investment in the country to date.
The facility will be located in Visakhapatnam, a coastal city in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh, and will combine gigawatt-scale computing capacity, renewable energy infrastructure, and new subsea cables to boost international connectivity.
"This is the largest AI hub we are investing in anywhere outside the U.S.," Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said at a ceremony in New Delhi, noting that the project will serve as a digital backbone for India’s expanding data and AI ecosystem.
The investment is planned over a five-year period from 2026 to 2030 and is part of Google’s broader effort to meet rising demand for AI tools and cloud services in India, where the number of internet users is projected to exceed 900 million by the end of this year.
According to Google, the Visakhapatnam hub will combine "AI infrastructure, data center capacity, large-scale energy sources, and an expanded fiber-optic network" in one integrated facility.
The company also said the project is expected to generate around $15 billion in U.S. gross domestic product through increased AI adoption and collaboration between Indian and American partners.
The project will be developed in collaboration with Adani Group, the Indian conglomerate spanning ports, logistics, and energy.
Gautam Adani, the group’s chairman, said he was "proud to partner with Google to help build the engine powering India’s AI revolution."
Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, described the project as a "landmark development" that will "accelerate AI innovation and drive growth across the country."
Major U.S. AI firms, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity, are expanding into India, while global players like Microsoft and AWS ramp up investments in the country’s growing cloud and AI infrastructure.