India is establishing the infrastructure necessary to potentially power global digital intelligence, with the Adani Group and Google Cloud’s planned $15 billion AI data center campus in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, marking a significant milestone, as reported by Newsweek. The article highlights Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for India to lead in the responsible use of artificial intelligence and the infrastructure that supports it. Many considered this ambition distant until now, as it begins to materialize along the Bay of Bengal. Google has unveiled an AI hub in Visakhapatnam, with an investment of approximately $15 billion over five years (2026-2030), its largest investment in India to date.
PM Modi noted that Google’s gigawatt-scale computing infrastructure aligns with the goal of creating a developed India. This extensive investment, which includes gigawatt-scale data center infrastructure, is expected to significantly democratize technology, according to the Prime Minister. The Newsweek report also references comments made by Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani in 2021, identifying data centers as drivers of “infinite energy demand” and emphasizing clean energy as a crucial element. Adani stated, “If India’s AI revolution is a skyscraper, we are building its foundation.” In 2022, Adani Green Energy pledged over $70 billion towards clean energy initiatives, aiming to establish “energy-to-compute” corridors.
The strategy was put into action in 2023 through the AdaniConneX joint venture, which targets 1 GW of data center capacity and the establishment of Adani AI Labs. The acquisition of Coredge in 2024 set the stage for a sovereign cloud, culminating in the $15 billion Adani-Google AI Data-Center Campus by 2025. Over four years, Adani Group committed $70 billion to renewable energy sources, including solar, wind, and energy storage, which now underpin what Adani refers to as “the infrastructure of intelligence.” The Adani Group has created an “energy-to-compute” ecosystem that integrates green energy production, fiber connectivity, ports, data centers, and sovereign cloud networks, with the Visakhapatnam project representing its most ambitious undertaking.
Meanwhile, India’s AI market is on the rise, projected to grow from $1 billion in 2024 to around $8 billion by 2030, with an annual growth rate exceeding 40 percent. Currently, India generates over 8 exabytes of data daily, a figure that continues to increase. The Google AI hub in Visakhapatnam will feature a specialized data center campus, enhancing gigawatt-scale compute capacity to address the demand for digital services both in India and globally. This development will be executed in collaboration with leading partners, including AdaniConneX and Airtel, utilizing the advanced infrastructure that supports Google services like Search, Workspace, and YouTube.
