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Make India Great Again: Google Announces $15B Commitment for AI Data Center, Largest Investment Outside USA
Breitbart ^ | 10/15/2025 | Lucas Nolan

Posted on 10/15/2025 2:33:57 PM PDT by DFG

Google will invest a staggering $15 billion to build data center capacity for a new AI hub in southern India, marking the company’s largest AI investment outside of the United States.

CNBC reports that Google has announced plans to invest $15 billion in a new AI data center hub in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The investment, which will be rolled out over the next five years, represents Google’s largest AI investment outside of the United States.

The announcement was made by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian at an event on Tuesday. The deal comes after a year of intense discussions and relentless effort, according to Nara Lokesh, the Minister for Human Resources Development of Andhra Pradesh. Lokesh, who had previously put the 1-gigawatt project at $10 billion, hailed the investment as “just the beginning” in a post on the social media platform X.

Reports from the Economic Times suggest that the investment will be made by Google’s Indian subsidiary Raiden Infotech, which plans to develop three campuses across the city of Visakhapatnam. State officials are also planning to significantly scale up the state’s computing capacity over the next three years, doubling down on such projects to attract more investment.

The Google investment is part of a broader trend of companies ramping up investments in infrastructure to keep pace with surging global demand for cloud services as AI services become increasingly popular. Google itself increased its forecast for capital expenditures in 2025 to $85 billion, up from $75 billion in February, due to “strong and growing demand for our Cloud products and services.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: h1b

1 posted on 10/15/2025 2:33:57 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

It better have well maintained generators and a lot of diesel stored on site.


2 posted on 10/15/2025 2:38:09 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Does India allow/have nuclear power?


3 posted on 10/15/2025 2:38:59 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: DFG

It’s not surprising that if the H1Bs can’t come over here, then some of these tech companies will set up operations over there and hire them.

Which I think is the right solutions. They need some of that labor, but they don’t need to be here, consuming our other resources such as roads, schools, hospitals, etc.


4 posted on 10/15/2025 2:40:27 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Don’t forget water and fossil fuels.


5 posted on 10/15/2025 2:41:28 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: mikey_hates_everything

They claim they will shore up the power with batteries


6 posted on 10/15/2025 2:45:35 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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As long as Indians don’t come here it’s good news


7 posted on 10/15/2025 2:45:41 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: DFG

Making it great again requires that it have been great at one time.


8 posted on 10/15/2025 2:48:34 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: DFG

I wonder if Google’s US employees realize they may be imposed upon to train their replacements in India? Or that the only reason they may be kept around stateside is to fix all the missiin critical screwups, without increase in pay?


9 posted on 10/15/2025 3:11:13 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: DFG

Data centers are geographical region specific, so this is almost certainly to serve the Asian/South Asian/East Asian market. Makes sense Bangalore being a major hub of AI startups that requires access to AI resources.


10 posted on 10/15/2025 3:12:16 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: DFG

CEO is Indian.


11 posted on 10/15/2025 3:22:04 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: DFG

When was it ever great?


12 posted on 10/15/2025 3:26:46 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: DFG

Do they have the power grid to support it?

Doubtful.


13 posted on 10/15/2025 4:29:03 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: HYPOCRACY

2-3% of total generation is nuclear, 9 GW. Their grid has capacity problems as it is.


14 posted on 10/15/2025 5:03:26 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Bon of Babble

Harbor Freight Power and Light.


15 posted on 10/15/2025 5:16:15 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: DFG

Send every disgusting, subhuman vermin pajeet back where it came from, then wall it off, and blockade it. They are biological weapons.


16 posted on 10/15/2025 9:25:15 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: DFG

Big win for the India scamming industry.


17 posted on 10/16/2025 3:58:09 AM PDT by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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