Google is planning to invest $6 billion to build a 1-gigawatt data centre in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, $2 billion of which is designated for renewable energy to power this facility.
Reuters reported the Google data centre will be the largest in capacity and investment size in Asia, and that it is part of the search giant’s multi-billion-dollar expansion of its data centre portfolio across the region. Other major deployments include in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.
The news agency stated Google parent Alphabet outlined a plan to spend around $75 billion to boost its data centre capacity despite the uncertainty of US President Donald Trump’s global tariffs.
Reuters noted Andhra Pradesh has already finalised data centre investments for total capacity of 1.6 GW as part a plan to build 6 GW of data centres over the next five years.
AI rivals xAI, OpenAI, Meta Platforms and Microsoft are investing billions of dollars on compute infrastructure by building large data centre clusters to train AI models.
Source: Mobile World Live
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