Google Cloud Plans More AI Data Centers in India
Google Cloud plans to grow its AI-ready data center footprint in India as enterprise demand for generative AI services accelerates.
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Google Cloud plans to build more AI-ready data centers in India beyond its planned Visakhapatnam campus, as enterprise demand for artificial intelligence drives cloud infrastructure growth in the country.
“We are planning AI data centers in India over multiple years. When we announced our first investment ($15 billion), it was not meant to be our last investment. We definitely have plans beyond the current timeframe,” Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian told The Economic Times during his visit to India.
In October 2025, Google announced plans to invest $15 billion over five years to build a 1 GW AI-ready data center campus in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The project, being developed with Adani Group and Bharti Airtel Ltd, is expected to become Google’s largest AI hub outside the US.
Kurian said India has become Google Cloud’s largest market in Asia, with enterprise customers driving much of the company’s recent growth.
“We’ve said globally that AI will be our primary driver of growth, and enterprise is how we’re pushing AI adoption to customers,” he told ET.
He said companies including Pocket FM, CRED, HDFC Bank, ICICI Group, Manipal Hospitals and Apollo Hospitals are using Google’s Gemini platform for applications such as fraud detection and patient data processing.
Kurian said adoption by large enterprises is encouraging smaller businesses to deploy AI, strengthening demand for cloud infrastructure in India.
He also said Google Cloud is willing to support AI models from other providers, including Anthropic’s Claude, even as the company pushes its own vertically integrated AI stack.
“We own the chip, the AI models, the cloud platform, data centers and applications,” he said, adding that controlling the full technology stack enables Google to optimize AI processing costs and improve operational efficiency.
Google’s expansion comes as global cloud providers race to build infrastructure for generative AI workloads.
Microsoft Corp. and Amazon Inc. have also announced significant investments in AI models, custom chips and cloud infrastructure, while Indian groups including Adani Group and Reliance Industries Ltd are expanding domestic data center capacity.
