Google to invest $10 billion in AI data center project in India

Google volition put $10 cardinal into gathering caller information centers successful confederate India, according to section officials, marking 1 of its largest investments successful the South Asian federation arsenic tech giants scramble to conscionable the exploding request for AI. 

Minister for Human Resources Development of the Indian authorities of Andhra Pradesh, Nara Lokesh, announced Monday that Google and his authorities volition motion a memorandum for a 1 gigawatt task successful the authorities with an concern of $10 billion. 

The woody — to beryllium signed Tuesday — comes aft "a twelvemonth of aggravated discussions and relentless effort," and "is conscionable the beginning," Lokesh said successful a post connected the societal media level X. 

The Indian outlet Economic Times previously reported that the concern would beryllium made by Google's Indian subsidiary Raiden Infotech, which plans to make 3 campuses crossed the metropolis of Visakhapatnam.

According to different report from ET connected Tuesday,  state officials planned to proceed doubling down connected specified projects and to importantly standard up the state's computing capableness implicit the adjacent 3 years.

Companies are amping up investments successful infrastructure to support gait with surging planetary request for unreality services arsenic AI services go progressively popular.

As portion of its second-quarter earnings successful July, Google accrued its forecast for superior expenditures successful 2025 to $85 billion, up from $75 cardinal successful February, owed to "strong and increasing request for our Cloud products and services."

That aforesaid month, the institution besides announced plans to put $25 cardinal successful information halfway and artificial quality infrastructure implicit the adjacent 2 years successful states crossed the biggest electrical grid successful the U.S.

India is progressively attracting multinational players, specified arsenic Microsoft and AWS, to put successful the country's unreality and AI infrastructure.