Google has announced its first artificial intelligence hub in India, marking a major milestone in the company’s global expansion of AI infrastructure and U.S.–India technology collaboration.
The new AI hub, revealed at the Bharat AI Shakti event in New Delhi, represents a $15 billion investment over five years (2026–2030) — Google’s largest commitment in India to date.
The project, which will be established in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, aims to deploy the company’s full AI stack in the country, combining powerful compute infrastructure, expanded data center capacity, and new renewable energy and fiber network investments.
India’s AI mission
Indian government leaders welcomed the announcement as a major boost to the national Viksit Bharat 2047 vision for AI-driven growth.
According to research commissioned by Google and conducted by Access Partnership, the AI hub could generate at least $15 billion in U.S. gross domestic product over the same five-year period through new economic activity related to AI and cloud technologies.
The Google AI hub in Visakhapatnam will include a purpose-built data center campus, adding gigawatt-scale compute capacity to meet the growing demand for digital services across India and around the world. Developed in partnership with AdaniConneX and Airtel, it will feature the same infrastructure that powers Google’s core products such as Search, Workspace, and YouTube.
The hub will offer services to help businesses and organizations build AI-powered solutions and do research and development.
Once operational, the facility will join Google’s network of AI data centers across 12 countries, benefiting from technology developed at Google’s R&D centers in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Pune.
Gateway and grid
As part of the investment, Google will build a new international subsea gateway in Visakhapatnam, featuring multiple undersea cables connecting India’s eastern coast to Google’s existing global network of over two million miles of terrestrial and subsea cables. The gateway will enhance connectivity, provide route diversity to complement existing landings in Mumbai and Chennai, and establish Visakhapatnam as a key AI and digital connectivity hub for the region.
Google also plans to work with local partners to deliver new transmission lines, clean energy generation, and energy storage systems in Andhra Pradesh. The company said these efforts will expand India’s clean energy portfolio and reinforce its commitment to sustainable, energy-efficient operations.
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