NEW DELHI, Oct 14 — Google on Monday announced a $15-billion investment to set up India’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) hub in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, in partnership with the Adani Group. The facility, described as Google’s biggest AI and data centre campus outside the United States, is aimed at boosting India’s AI innovation and digital infrastructure over the next five years.
The announcement was made during Google’s Bharat AI Shakti event in New Delhi, which was attended by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.
“This is the largest AI hub that we are going to be investing in anywhere in the world outside of the US,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said at the event. He added that the project would “provide the critical foundation to drive growth and enable businesses, researchers, and creators to build and scale with AI.”
The Visakhapatnam hub will include a 1-gigawatt data centre campus, new large-scale energy sources, and an expanded fibre-optic network. “This hub combines gigawatt-scale compute capacity, a new international subsea gateway, and large-scale energy infrastructure,” said Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a post on X. “Through it, we will bring our industry-leading technology to enterprises and users in India, accelerating AI innovation and driving growth across the country.”
Adani Enterprises, the flagship firm of billionaire Gautam Adani’s conglomerate, said its joint venture company AdaniConneX will develop the data centre campus alongside Google, supported by green energy infrastructure and subsea cable networks. “The Adani Group is proud to partner with Google on this historic project that will define the future of India’s digital landscape,” said Gautam Adani. “This is more than just an investment in infrastructure. It is an investment in the soul of a rising nation.”
According to Google, the multi-faceted investment between 2026 and 2030 will encompass clean energy generation, innovative storage systems, and new transmission lines in Andhra Pradesh. “It will be brought to life in close collaboration with ecosystem partners including AdaniConneX and Airtel,” the company said in a statement.
An internal analysis commissioned by Google suggests that the AI hub could generate at least $15 billion in U.S. GDP over five years, stemming from increased cloud and AI adoption as well as the American talent and resources involved in building and operating the facility.
Finance Minister Sitharaman, speaking at the event, said India’s digital transformation has been enabled by strong policy frameworks introduced since 2014 under the Modi government. She lauded Chief Minister Naidu for his role in scaling up digital infrastructure in his earlier tenure. “It is just the right place to land in and the right country to be in,” she noted. “This is one of those interesting phases in Indian history where policy is pushing ahead much before many in the political arena are even ready to absorb.”
The AI hub announcement sets the stage for the upcoming India-AI Impact Summit 2026, where global leaders in technology and governance are expected to discuss the future of artificial intelligence in India.
