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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu laid the foundation stone for the new Google Cloud hub at Vizag. The company plans to invest $15 billion in a full artificial intelligence stack and reinforce India’s position as a key player in the global technology and innovation landscape.
Andhra Pradesh’s State Education and IT Department Minister Nara Lokesh, several other state ministers, and public representatives, including Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, Pemmasani Chandrasekhar, and Srinivasa Varma, among others, were also present during the ceremony.
Andhra CM Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for a 1 GW Google Cloud AI Hub in Tarluvada village, Andhra Pradesh. Chandrababu Naidu said the facility will be inaugurated in September 2028. He invited the company to confirm its participation at the earliest.
“Today marks the beginning of a new chapter for Andhra Pradesh. Google choosing Visakhapatnam reflects the city’s growing potential and appeal,” he said.
With a $15 billion investment, the upcoming Google Cloud India AI Hub will deliver a full Artificial Intelligence stack to empower individuals and businesses with immense computing power, according to Bikash Koley, Vice President, Google Cloud.
“We are proud to bring Google’s best-in-class AI stack to India to help accelerate India’s digital transformation. Crucially, this hub includes the America-India Connect Initiative to deliver the high-capacity, low-latency connectivity India needs to lead the global AI economy,” the Google Cloud Vice President said.
By establishing Vizag as an international subsea gateway, the new center would add vital diversity from existing landings in Mumbai and Chennai, increasing the resilience of India’s digital backbone and improving economic security.
“At its core is our gigawatt-scale data center campus, purpose-built for the immense computational demands of the AI era, powering services like Gemini and Google Search for millions of Indians,” the Google Cloud Vice President said.
“New strategic fiber-optic routes will further connect India with the rest of the world. This is more than moving bits and bytes; these subsea paths honor a long history of global connection by turning maritime merchant shipping routes between the New World and India into digital trade routes, bringing economies closer together,” he further explained.
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The investment in the hub would have an economic multiplier. “Our commitment extends well beyond AI infrastructure. Building data centers the right way means uplifting our neighbors in our new community across key themes of job security, energy, water,’’ Koley added.
Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Vice Chairman, Bharti Enterprises, said Vizag was historically a gateway for maritime trade; however, now it would be a gateway to the intelligence age for India and the globe.
“At the heart of this mammoth initiative is Nxtra by Airtel, India’s leading homegrown data center business. - It currently boasts 14 core campuses across India, with 120+ data centers, managing 270 megawatts of live capacity. More importantly, this project is going to be self-sustainable and eco-friendly, which is again our commitment,’’ he said.
“The entire project was backed by strong global confidence, with nearly 400 megawatts of renewable energy that Nxtra will utilize to ensure India moves towards net zero by 2031,” he added.
Jeet Adani of Adani Group revealed that Adaniconnex's role will be to create an infrastructure ecosystem with the clean energy needed for an AI data center. “While India now has 1.3 GE data center capacity, this new center here alone will have 1 GE capacity,” Jeet Adani said
The AI hub aims to deliver high-performance, low-latency services that businesses and organizations need to build and scale their own AI-powered solutions, accelerate research and development, and ultimately help India secure its place as a global leader in the AI-driven future. When operational, the new data center campus will join Google’s network of existing AI data centers that spans 12 countries.
