Google has announced that it will build its first AI Hub in India at Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The company will invest over $15 billion in this facility over the next five years to setup flagship level AI infrastructure. The plans were confirmed in a meeting between Google CEO Sundar Pichai India’s Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, alongside other notable ministers at the Bharat Al Shakti Event. Here’s everything that you need to know.
Google’s Largest Ever Investment in India
The new AI Hub by Google will be set up in phases between 2026-2030, where the company has planned to invest over $15 billion. It will focus on creating new infrastructure for AI, cloud computing, and other modern technologies. Google also mentions that the hub will generate business equivalent to its investment by opening new business opportunities for American and Indian talents.
As per CEO Sundar Pichai, this AI Hub will host a gigawatt scale compute capacity, new international subsea gateway, and create a new large scale energy infrastructure. He also mentioned about brining industry-leading technologies in India to fuel the AI growth in the country. This new project also aligns with the Indian Government’s vision of Viksit Bharat 2047 which aims to transform the economy to $30 trillion.
Great to speak with India PM @narendramodi @OfficialINDIAai to share our plans for the first-ever Google AI hub in Visakhapatnam, a landmark development.
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) October 14, 2025
This hub combines gigawatt-scale compute capacity, a new international subsea gateway, and large-scale energy infrastructure.…
The AI Hub will be developed by Google in partnership with leading Indian entities like Airtel and AdaniConneX. This infrastrcuture is being designed to handle top-grade Google products like Search, Workspace, YouTube, and others. It will also deliver low-latency services to businesses that are looking to develop their in-house AI-powered solutions.
The new subsea gateway will connect multiple international subsea cables to Vishakapatnam, which is the eastern coast of India. It will improve India’s digital connectivity with the core internet infrastructure of the world through these cables, which is highly essential for AI services. These new cables will also reduce the latency in cloud operations.
Google also mentions that its new AI Hub will be powered by green and clean energy resources. The company has partenered with local energy distrubutors in Andhra Pradesh for maximum efficiency.
India’s Entry in the AI Space
Google’s new AI Hub is not the only big thing happening in the AI space of India. A few days back, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei also met India PM Narendra Modi to discuss the expansion of Claude AI services in the country. The company has also shown interest in the talented youth of India to empower its AI plans. Anthropic has also opened a new office in Bengaluru under the same plans.
Last year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also announced a new partnership with Reliance Industries in India to create new R&D centres and AI infrastructure. The plans are already in progress where Jio is using Nvidia’s advanced GPU architecture services for its backend IT services. Reliance is also developing new AI models focused on Indian languages to cater to the needs of locals, especially in the rural areas.
