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Google<\/a> will invest $15 billion to build data center capacity for a new artificial intelligence<\/a> hub in southern India, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian announced at an event Tuesday.<\/p>\n The investment will roll out over the next five years, and will be Google’s largest AI hub in the world outside of the U.S, Kurian added.<\/p>\n Earlier on Monday, the Minister for Human Resources Development of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Nara Lokesh, put the 1-gigawatt project at $10 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n The deal comes after “a year of intense discussions and relentless effort,” and “is just the beginning,” Lokesh said in a post<\/a> on the social media platform X.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Indian outlet Economic Times previously reported<\/a> that the investment would be made by Google’s Indian subsidiary Raiden Infotech, which plans to develop three campuses across the city of Visakhapatnam.<\/p>\n According to another report<\/a> from ET on Tuesday, state officials planned to continue doubling down on such projects and to significantly scale up the state’s computing capacity over the next three years.<\/p>\n Companies are amping up investments in infrastructure to keep pace with surging global demand for cloud services as AI services become increasingly popular.<\/p>\n As part of its second-quarter\u00a0earnings<\/a> in July, Google increased its forecast for capital expenditures in 2025 to $85 billion, up from $75 billion in February, due to “strong and growing demand for our Cloud products and services.”<\/p>\n That same month, the company also announced<\/a> plans to invest $25 billion in data center and artificial intelligence infrastructure over the next two years in states across the biggest electric grid in the U.S.<\/p>\n India is increasingly attracting multinational players, such as Microsoft<\/a> and AWS<\/a>, to invest in the country’s cloud and AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prakash Singh | AFP | Getty Images Google will invest $15 billion to build data center capacity for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,26743,276,277,2158,161,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-211746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alphabet-class-a","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}