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New Delhi. Google is going to make its first investment in India and the biggest investment in Digital History. The company will set up a huge data center clusters with a 1 GW capacity at Visakhapatnam of Andhra Pradesh at a cost of $ 10 billion (about Rs 88,730 crore). The project will be the largest ever in Asia and is expected to give a tremendous boost to India’s digital economy.

Explain that Google and its subsidiaries currently operate data centers at 29 places in 11 countries – America, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Ireland, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Belgium and Chile.

According to a report, this data center cluster will be built in three separate campuses in the cluster Visakhapatnam district in Visakhapatnam district and three separate campuses in Taralowada villages and Rambillly village of neighboring Anakapalli district. For this, three high-capacity submarine cables will be installed, for which an advanced telecom structure including special cable landing stations and metro fiber lines will be developed. The state government aims to create double submarine cable network from Mumbai in Visakhapatnam.

Partnership and deadline
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. An MoU with Google has been signed by Chandrababu Naidu in December 2024 itself. The project is expected to be finalized and it is likely to be formally signed between Google’s team and state IT minister Nara Nara Lokesh on 14 October. This data center cluster is estimated to be operational by July 2028. However, Google has not commented on this.

Impact on India’s digital future
This data center cluster will become the center of India’s first international AI Infrastructure Hub. This will promote the economy of Andhra Pradesh and the whole of India and will speed up advanced research and development works. This investment will play an important role in meeting the demand for AI, cloud computing and data processing in the country.