Google Cloud ups India bets

Google Cloud said on April 24 it will increase spending in India on data-center infrastructure, engineering hires and enterprise partnerships. (moneycontrol.com) Chief executive Thomas Kurian told Moneycontrol the company plans to deepen infrastructure investment and add more local engineering talent to support customers and partners in India. He said the push is aimed at bringing Google’s artificial intelligence tools to more Indian businesses and consumers. (moneycontrol.com) India is already one of Google Cloud’s established infrastructure markets. Google opened its Delhi National Capital Region cloud region in 2021, adding to its Mumbai region and giving customers two in-country locations for lower-latency services and disaster recovery. (cloud.google.com) Google has been expanding India-specific cloud capacity as companies ask to keep data and artificial-intelligence processing inside the country. At its Google for India event in October 2024, the company said organizations in India could store data and run Gemini 1.5 Flash machine-learning processing entirely within India. (economictimes.indiatimes.com) The India push comes as Google Cloud is growing quickly inside Alphabet. In Alphabet’s fourth-quarter 2025 results, Google Cloud revenue rose 48% year over year to $17.7 billion, which the company said was driven by enterprise artificial-intelligence infrastructure, AI solutions and core cloud products. (abc.xyz; q4cdn.com) Alphabet has also been signaling heavier global spending to meet that demand. On its February 4, 2026 earnings call, the company discussed elevated capital spending tied to artificial-intelligence infrastructure, underscoring why markets such as India matter for future cloud capacity and customer growth. (abc.xyz) Kurian’s comments build on a broader India expansion plan Google unveiled in October 2025. At that time, Google said it would invest about $15 billion in India over five years and build an artificial-intelligence hub in Visakhapatnam, its largest India commitment to date. (blog.google; cnbc.com) For Indian companies, the immediate effect is more local cloud capacity, more engineers on the ground and more direct work with Google Cloud and its partners. For Google, it is another step in making India a bigger base for enterprise cloud and artificial-intelligence business, not just a sales market. (moneycontrol.com; cloud.google.com)