Weeks after President Donald Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Indian imports<\/a> in August, Prime Minister Narendra Modi began urging the use of \u201cswadeshi\u201d<\/a> (Hindi for \u201cmade in India\u201d) products. In response, Indian lawmakers and ministries started promoting local alternatives to Google<\/a> \u2014 including those from Chennai-based enterprise tech firm Zoho Corporation, which offers competitors to Google Cloud and Gmail, and most recently, WhatsApp-rival Arattai, as well as MapMyIndia, a Google Maps-rival. While the initial impact has been limited, these moves could pose a real political threat to the future of companies Google and Microsoft in India.<\/p>\n Google has 14,000 employees in India, and has operated in the country for 21 years. The company also counts Delhi and Mumbai as official cloud regions.<\/p>\n The new Google AI hub will be the company\u2019s largest investment outside of the U.S., said Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, adding that it would be scaled to \u201cmultiple gigawatts\u201d over time.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is part of a global network of AI centers in 12 different countries,\u201d Kurian said at the launch of the AI hub in New Delhi. \u201cIn addition to that, we\u2019re also pleased to announce that we will be making Vishakhapatnam a global connectivity hub.\u201d<\/p>\n Google also announced plans to bring its subsea cable infrastructure to Visakhapatnam. The U.S. tech giant has partnered with Indian telecom provider Bharti Airtel to build both the data center and the cable landing station in the city. Further, Google has teamed up with Adani Group-backed AdaniConneX to set up the infrastructure for the data center.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco \u201cWe see it not just becoming a landing station for a large number of cables, but also providing a digital backbone connecting different parts of India together,\u201d Kurian said.<\/p>\n Google said the AI hub will offer a \u201cfull stack of solutions,\u201d including its custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to enable local AI processing.<\/p>\n The Mountain View\u2013based company will also provide access to its AI models \u2014 including Gemini \u2014 and its platform for building agents and applications. The hub will additionally support consumer services such as Google Search, YouTube, Gmail, and Google Ads.<\/p>\n \u201cWe see this hub not just serving India but from India serving Asia and other parts of the world,\u201d Kurian said.<\/p>\n Google\u2019s choice of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh is not surprising. The southern state, under Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, has previously attracted global tech firms like Oracle<\/a> and Microsoft<\/a> to set up hubs in Hyderabad, which was Andhra Pradesh\u2019s capital before the creation of Telangana. Naidu, a key political ally who supported Prime Minister Modi\u2019s return to power<\/a> in the last general election, has since played a prominent role in shaping national policy discussions.<\/p>\n \u201cThis AI hub will be a very important contribution to the [India] AI mission goals in different ways,\u201d said Indian IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.<\/p>\n The minister urged Google to consider India\u2019s Andaman Islands as the next major hub for global internet data transfer, noting that Singapore \u201cis all choked,\u201d and assured the company of full government support. He also proposed linking Visakhapatnam with Sittwe, a city in Myanmar, to improve connectivity in India\u2019s northeastern states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is making a $15 billion investment to set up a 1-gigawatt data center and AI hub in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,133,4859,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-73876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-google","tag-google-cloud","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 27-29, 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/google-data-center-india-launch.jpg\")
Google\u2019s AI hub launch in India with Indian lawmakersImage Credits:Jagmeet Singh \/ TechCrunch<\/p>\n