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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It better have well maintained generators and a lot of diesel stored on site.
Does India allow/have nuclear power?
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.
Don’t forget water and fossil fuels.
They claim they will shore up the power with batteries
As long as Indians don’t come here it’s good news
Making it great again requires that it have been great at one time.
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?
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.
CEO is Indian.
When was it ever great?
Do they have the power grid to support it?
Doubtful.
2-3% of total generation is nuclear, 9 GW. Their grid has capacity problems as it is.
Harbor Freight Power and Light.
Send every disgusting, subhuman vermin pajeet back where it came from, then wall it off, and blockade it. They are biological weapons.
Big win for the India scamming industry.
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