Silicon Shore: Google Breaks Ground on $15B AI Hub in Vizag

Google is set to lay the foundation stone for its $15-billion data centre project in Visakhapatnam on April 28.

Touted as the company’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) hub outside the United States, the facility is being developed to meet the rapidly growing demand for AI computing capacity. The project highlights India’s increasing strategic importance in the global digital infrastructure and AI ecosystem.

The foundation-laying ceremony will be attended by Ashwini Vaishnaw, N. Chandrababu Naidu, and Thomas Kurian.

The project is being executed by AdaniConneX and will feature a 1 GW data centre along with dedicated energy infrastructure. It will also incorporate a new subsea gateway and be integrated into Google’s global network of terrestrial and subsea cables, significantly enhancing connectivity and data capacity.

News by Rahul Yelligetti.