Adani Enterprises Ltd, Alphabet Inc's Google and Bharti Airtel Ltd have joined forces to build India’s largest AI data centre in Visakhapatnam. The project is part of Google’s $ 15 billion push to strengthen its presence in India’s growing AI sector.

Adani ConneX, a joint venture between Adani Group and US-based Edge ConneX, will work with Airtel to develop the full infrastructure for Google’s AI hub in Vizag. This includes building a new international subsea gateway, according to a statement released on Tuesday, 14 October 2025.

The collaboration will also invest in new transmission lines, renewable energy projects, and energy storage systems across Andhra Pradesh.

“This is more than just an investment in infrastructure. It is an investment in the soul of a rising nation,” Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani said in a statement, “Visakhapatnam is now set to become a global destination for technology, and we are thrilled to be the architects of this monumental journey.”

Google plans to invest around $15 billion over the next five years to build this AI hub, which will be its biggest project yet in a country with over a billion internet users.

The hub will feature a data centre powered by renewable energy and connected through a high-speed fibre optic network. For this, Google is partnering with Adani ConneX and Bharti Airtel to combine global technology expertise with local infrastructure.

The project also supports Andhra Pradesh’s efforts to become a major hub for AI development. The state government aims to host six gigawatts of data centre capacity by 2029, Technology Minister Nara Lokesh told Bloomberg News.

India has become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the worldwide AI boom, attracting major investments from global tech giants.

Amazon Web Services, part of Amazon.com Inc., plans to invest 12.7 billion dollars in India over the next five years to expand its cloud infrastructure and support over one lakh full-time jobs each year. AWS already runs two data centres in Mumbai and Hyderabad.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is looking for Indian partners to set up a large data centre with at least one gigawatt capacity. The firm has officially registered in India and started building its local team, Bloomberg News reported.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, the country’s largest IT company, has also announced ambitious AI plans. It will build a one-gigawatt AI data centre in India for $ 6.5 billion and form a separate AI subsidiary to lead this work. This marks a major shift for TCS from cost-focused outsourcing to high-end AI computing.

Google’s upcoming AI hub in Vizag is “designed to provide a full AI infrastructure, and it is designed to serve not just our own needs, but the needs of entrepreneurs, enterprises, and commercial organisations here in India,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian told reporters in New Delhi.