Visakhapatnam / Amaravathi, NFAPost: Google will invest $6 billion to develop a 1-gigawatt data centre and its power infrastructure in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the Alphabet unit’s first such investment in India, government sources said on Wednesday quoting Reuters report.
Due to be built in the port city of Visakhapatnam, the data centre investment includes $2 billion in renewable energy capacity that will be used to power the facility, two Andhra Pradesh government sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
The search giant’s data centre will be the largest in capacity and investment size in Asia and is part a multi-billion-dollar expansion of its data centre portfolio across the region in countries including Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.
In April, Alphabet said it was still committed to spending some $75 billion this year to build data centre capacity despite the economic uncertainty resulting from U.S. President Donald Trump’s global tariff offensive.
Andhra Pradesh is also working on getting three cable landing stations in Visakhapatnam. According to sources, Andhra Pradesh cable landing facilities will be two times what Mumbai has today.
The state is already bubbling with data centre business as Sify Technologies plans to build 550-MW data centre. A few other companies also approached the state government which will fuel the growth of IT/ITes business in the state.
