Google Cloud breaks ground $15B hub

Google broke ground Tuesday on its India AI hub in Visakhapatnam, starting construction on a $15 billion project in Andhra Pradesh. (googlecloudpresscorner.com) Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu laid the foundation stone at Tarluvada on April 28, 2026, alongside federal IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and executives from Google Cloud, Adani Group and Bharti Enterprises. (googlecloudpresscorner.com) (economictimes.indiatimes.com) Google said the hub is being developed with AdaniConneX and Nxtra by Airtel as a gigawatt-scale ecosystem for cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence workloads and regional digital services. (googlecloudpresscorner.com) (adani.com) State and business press reports said the campus is planned at about 1 gigawatt across roughly 600 acres in Tarluvada, Adavivaram and Rambilli. (newindianexpress.com) (economictimes.indiatimes.com) A data center is a warehouse for computing power, and a gigawatt-scale site is built to run far more servers than a typical enterprise facility. Google’s plan pairs those server buildings with fiber links, cable landings and new power systems so the site can move data and keep machines running. (datacenterdynamics.com) (adani.com) Google first announced the India AI hub on October 14, 2025, saying it would invest about $15 billion in Andhra Pradesh from 2026 through 2030. Tuesday’s ceremony moved that plan from announcement to construction. (googlecloudpresscorner.com 1) (googlecloudpresscorner.com 2) The October plan also included a subsea cable gateway in Visakhapatnam and new transmission, clean-energy and storage projects in Andhra Pradesh. Vaishnaw said Tuesday that three subsea cables landing in the city would become important national infrastructure. (datacenterdynamics.com) (googlecloudpresscorner.com) Naidu said the project should be completed by September 2028, while The New Indian Express reported about 3,000 direct technical jobs and Business Standard cited estimates of at least 200,000 direct and indirect jobs. (newindianexpress.com) (business-standard.com) The project puts Visakhapatnam at the center of India’s race to add artificial-intelligence computing capacity, with Google tying together data centers, network links and electricity supply in one buildout. (datacenterdynamics.com) (googlecloudpresscorner.com)