Google is to invest $6 billion to develop a 1-gigawatt data center in India and its related power infrastructure. This will be in the state of Andhra Pradesh as Alphabet’s first batch of such investment in India.
Project Overview
Reported November 4, 2025 – The project will be built in the port city of Visakhapatnam where it will include a $2 billion in renewable energy capacity. The energy generated will be used to power the facility. This also comes as Google inks pact with India’s ReNew Energy to build a solar farm in the country. The tech giant’s data center will also be the largest in capacity and investment size in Asia. This is part a multi-billion-dollar expansion of its data center portfolio across the region in countries including Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. In April, Alphabet also said it was still committed to spending some $75 billion this year to build data center capacity.
This is despite the economic uncertainty resulting from U.S. President Donald Trump’s global tariff offensive. The data center will join the exclusive global club of 1GW data centers.
Google is also currently developing two new data centers in Ohio to drive its AI infrastructure development plans. The company is also making tremendous strides in its data center projects as it currently in negotiations with the UK government to develop a data center in Teesside, Europe’s largest.
Google’s data center in India is one of the largest outside the US and Europe other than the 300MW Tiktok data center being developed in Brazil. The construction of the Tiktok data center in Ceara, Brazil advances as Patria-backed Omnia comes on board. The center is expected to serve Tiktok as its sole client, according to sources familiar with the project. The facility is being developed with Brazilian renewable energy provider Casa dos Ventos. It is to be constructed in the Pecem port complex. Brazilian officials have publicly linked TikTok to the project, though ByteDance, Patria, and Casa dos Ventos declined to comment.
Project Factsheet for Google Hyperscale Data Centre Campus in India
Developer: Google (Alphabet Inc.)
Investment: US$6 billion
Planned Capacity: 1 GW
Project Type: Hyperscale, AI-ready data center campus
Location: Andhra Pradesh, India
Power Supply:
- Dedicated renewable energy capacity planned
- US$2 billion allocated to clean energy and power infrastructure
Significance:
- Google’s largest data centre investment in Asia to date.
- First hyperscale deployment of this scale by Google in India.
- Designed to support cloud and AI demand.
Status: Planning and early-stage development
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The State of Affairs Regarding Google’s Data Center in India
The current state of affairs in the construction of Google’s data center in India is one that the government of India is open to. The state of Andhra Pradesh has been looking to attract investments to ease the financial strains of high debt. Furthermore, it will ease the burden of social spending. Nara Lokesh, Andhra Pradesh’s information technology minister, said Andhra Pradesh has already been able to finalize investments in data centers with total capacity of 1.6 GW. Furthermore, it added that it aims to build 6 GW of data centers over the next five years from nearly zero currently.
He expects the initial 1.6 GW of already agreed data centers to be operational in the next 24 months. That would be more than the 1.4 GW currently in operation in the entire country, according to real estate consultancy Anarock. “We’re also working on getting three cable landing stations in Visakhapatnam. We want to create enough of cable network. This will be two times what Mumbai has today,” Lokesh said. Lokesh also said the state was looking to build up energy infrastructure to meet sustainability requirements of data centers. He said he anticipated power generation capacity requirements of as much as 10 GW from the electricity-intensive industry over the next five years.
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