Google is investing $ 15 billion to set up 1-Gigwat Data Center and AI Hub in India, even the Indian government pressures to reduce dependence on US technology giants.
Tuesday, Google D It will build a data center in Port city Visakhapatnam in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The investment will be held in the next five years by 20, the company has added. Significantly, it marks Google The largest investment in India And in 2020, the South Asian nation’s $ 10 billion promise came five years after the first announcement.
After the week of President Donald Trump Imposed 50% tariff on Indian imports Prime Minister Narendra Modi in August Begins calling for the use of “Swadeshi” (Hindi for “India Made”) Products. In response to, Indian Law makers and ministers Google started promoting local alternatives -Chennai-based Enterprise Tech Farm Joho Corporation is included, which provides competitors to Google Cloud and Gmail and recently WhatsApp-contestant Arti, as well as Google Maps-opponent Mapmandia. Although the initial impact is limited, these steps can be a real political threat to the future of Google and Microsoft companies in India.
Google has 14,000 employees in India and has worked in the country for 21 years. The company also calculates Delhi and Mumbai as the official cloud region.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says the new Google AI Hub will be the largest investment in the company outside the United States, adding that it will be shortened on “multiple gigawat” over time.
“It is part of a global network of AI centers in 12 different countries in the beginning of the AI Hub in New Delhi.” “In addition to this, we are also satisfied with the announcement that we will make Visakhapatnam as a global connection center.”
Google also announced plans to bring its subseas to the infrastructure. The US Tech Giant has parted with Indian telecom suppliers Bharti Airtel to build both the city’s data center and cable landing station. Further, the Google Data Center has tied up with the Adi Group-backed Adanix to set up infrastructure.
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Kurian said, “We can see that it is not only a landing station for a large number of cables, but also provides a digital backbone to connect different parts of India together,” said Kurian.
Google says that AI Hub will provide a “complete solution” with its custom tensor processing unit (TPU) to enable AI Hub local AI processing.
The Mountain View -based company will provide access to its AI models – including Jemini – and the building agents and platforms of applications. The hub will additionally support consumer services like Google Search, YouTube, Gmail and Google Ads.
Kurian said, “We are not only serving this hub, India is serving from India to Asia and other regions of the world.”
Google’s choice in Andhra Pradesh is not surprising. Chief Minister N. Under Chandrabu Naidu the southern state has previously attracted worldwide technology agencies Oracle And Microsoft To set up hubs in Hyderabad, which was the capital of Andhra Pradesh before the Telangana was made. Naidu, a original political ally who is Supported Prime Minister Modi back to power In the last general elections, since then, national policy has played a prominent role in the discussion.
“This AI Hub will be a very important contribution [India] The AI mission noticed in various ways, “said Indian IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnava.
The minister called Google the Andaman Islands of India to consider the Global Internet Data Transfer to be the next main center of the Global Data Transfer, citing Singapore “all occupied” and assured the agency’s full government assistance. He also proposed to connect Visakhapatnam to a city of Myanmar to improve communication in the northeastern state of India.