New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- The global chief of Google Cloud announced the construction of what the company calls its biggest AI and data centre hub outside of the United States: a multi-gigawatt, $15 billion project in Visakhapatnam also housing a Google subsea cable landing. It was announced together with a memorandum of understanding with the government of Andhra Pradesh.

Google Cloud Global CEO Thomas Kurien unveiled plans for a gigawatt-scale AI hub in Visakhapatnam. According to the company's statement shared with this report, the project "represents a capital investment of $15 billion over the next five years and will scale to multiple gigawatts." Kurien framed the facility as a flagship AI centre within Google's global network across 1...