Google Lines Up $15 Billion AI Data Hub with Adani, Airtel in Vizag
The $15 billion investment is said to be disbursed over five years and is expected to align with the government's vision of Viksit Bharat 2047
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Alphabet’s Google will spend $15 billion over five years to build a gigawatt-scale AI data hub in Visakhapatnam, partnering with Gautam Adani’s data-center venture and Bharti Airtel in its biggest India bet to date, as the state of Andhra Pradesh races to position itself as a new digital gateway to Asia.
This comes a week after the tech giant announced receiving the approval of the state for setting up a $10B data centre in Vizag.
Google and state officials said the campus will anchor a broader build-out that includes new power generation and a subsea cable landing to move data in and out of India at scale.
The company described the project as its first AI hub in India and its largest outside the US.
“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,” Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in a post after briefing Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The facility will sit inside a 1-gigawatt data-center campus in the port city of Visakhapatnam.
Google framed the spending as part of a multiyear plan to add global AI infrastructure, while Indian officials pitched it as a proof point for the country’s role in the next wave of cloud and AI computing.
The data facility will be a part of Google’s global network of AI centres spread across 12 countries, along with being a part of the state government’s plan to develop 6GW of data centre capacity by 2029, according to Bloomberg News.
The government has been offering subsidised land and electricity to attract global investors in Andhra.
Deemed to be Google’s largest outside the US, the facility will include a 1 GW data centre campus, AI infrastructure, new large-scale energy sources, and an expanded fibre-optic network.
“This facility will house the TPU and GPU-based compute power required for deep learning, neural network training, and large-scale AI model inference and create an ecosystem that accelerates AI-driven solutions for India’s most critical sectors – from healthcare and agriculture to logistics and finance,” Gautam Adani posted on X.
The partnership for the data hub is signed through AdaniConneX, a joint venture between Adani Enterprises and EdgeConneX focused on the data center ecosystem in India.
Google Cloud chief Thomas Kurian set the tone earlier in the day with a corporate blog post announcing “our first AI hub in India” and outlining the components that make the project more than a single campus. The company flagged a new international subsea gateway in the region and described gigawatt-scale compute designed to power services globally, with Visakhapatnam joining a network of AI infrastructure the firm is deploying across Asia.
India’s data-center market has entered a capacity cycle fueled by cloud adoption, fintech, streaming and AI. Nationwide capacity across the seven biggest cities is expected to cross 4,500 megawatts by 2030 and draw between $20 billion and $25 billion of investment, according to real estate consultancy Colliers. That compares with about 1,263 megawatts as of April 2025.
