Google invests $15-billion in Vizag AI hub
Google is investing $15-billion in a gigawatt‑scale AI hub in Vizag, India. The project includes undersea cable links, 125MW of solar power with ReNew, and 125MW of wind and solar power with CleanMax. Google plans to provide compute capacity for Indian businesses, startups, and institutions, and to bring its global research capabilities into the Indian context.
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- Google invests $15-billion in Vizag AI hub with 125MW solar power from ReNew
- Google plans to upskill 10,000 people in Vizag and train 1,200 students and teachers
- Google records 109 languages in Project Vaani and makes datasets available to Bhashini project
The company has recorded 109 languages in Project Vaani and is making datasets available to the Bhashini project. It also offers open‑weight models such as Gemma and Gemini to developers. Google has committed to upskill 10,000 people in Vizag, train 1,200 students and teachers, and provide tools to 1,000 fishermen.
Residents, environmental groups, and citizen coalitions in Vizag have launched organised protests against massive, proposed AI data centre projects. Google said it would pay for the power it consumes, including new substations and transmission lines required to support the data centre. The facility would be air‑cooled. Google follows a “bold and responsible AI” approach, with checks built into product development, model red‑teaming, and frameworks for frontier and agentic AI. It cites SynthID, a watermarking technology for identifying AI‑generated content, and calls for shared industry standards.
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businesstoday.in · 5 November 2026
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