Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says the new Indian AI hub will be Google’s largest investment outside the U.S., as the tech giant also unveils a new $9 billion investment in AI infrastructure in South Carolina.
Google is continuing to pour tens of billions of dollars into expanding its AI data center reach across the world with a $15 billion investment in India and $9 billion investment in South Carolina to meet its bullish AI innovation and goals.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian (pictured) said the tech giant is investing $15 billion over the next five years to build a new AI-powered data center in southern India as part of a massive undertaking to create a global network of Google AI data centers.
“It’s the largest AI hub that we are going to be investing in anywhere in the world outside of the United States,” said Kurian at a New Delhi event this week. “It is part of a global network of AI centers in 12 different countries.”
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The AI data center hub will have integrated AI infrastructure, expanded fiber-optic networks and large-scale energy resources spread across three sites in the region, with operations expected to open in July 2028.
It will be located in the port city of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh with a capacity of 1 gigawatt with plans to scale it to multiple gigawatts of power in the future.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Google currently has a $384 billion annual run rate.
Google CEO On AI Hub Vision
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the AI hub in India is a “landmark development” that will bring the power of Google AI innovation to the country’s large population.
“This hub combines gigawatt-scale compute capacity, a new international subsea gateway and large-scale energy infrastructure,” Pichai said on social media platform X Tuesday.
India is considered one of the biggest AI growth markets in the world for cloud and AI providers like Google, Microsoft and Amazon, with nearly 1 billion people now having access to the internet.
“This long-term vision we have is to accelerate India’s own AI mission,” Google Cloud’s Kurian said.
Artificial intelligence products and services require enormous computing power, which is driving the demand for specialized AI data centers that link massive amounts of chips togethers in clusters.
Google Invests $9 Billion In South Carolina
With operating income of $31 billion during the second quarter of 2025, it’s no secret that Google is investing in AI-focused data centers.
On Monday, Google also unveiled a new $9 billion investment in South Carolina through 2027 to expand its Berkeley County data center campus and support the continued construction of two new sites in Dorchester County.
“To ensure South Carolinians can access the opportunities created by this growth, we’re also providing a Google.org grant to the Electrical Training Alliance,” said Google in a statement. “This grant will help integrate AI tools into etA’s training, preparing more than 160 apprentices for careers in the state’s growing tech and energy sector. … We’re creating new jobs, helping to power the state’s digital economy for years to come, and advancing the U.S. as a world leader in AI innovation.”
Google AI Data Center Investments In 2025
In August, Google CEO Pichai said his company plans to invest roughly $85 billion in CapEx in 2025.
So far in 2025, Google has announced a $4 billion data center investment in Arkansas; $7 billion in cloud and AI infrastructure in Iowa; $9 billion in data centers in Oklahoma; and another $9 billion investment in Virginia.
These massive billion-dollar data centers and AI investments are typically spread out over several years.
Outside America, Google has also unveiled a $5 billion AI and data center investment in the U.K., as well as a similar $5 billion investment in Belgium.
“Cloud had strong growth in revenues, backlog and profitability. Its annual revenue run rate is now more than $50 billion,” said Pichai during the company’s second-quarter 2025 financial earnings report in August. “With this strong and growing demand for our cloud products and services, we are increasing our investment in capital expenditures in 2025 to approximately $85 billion and are excited by the opportunity ahead.”
