Google to invest $6 billion in India for Asia’s biggest datacentre project: Report
Google is set to make a massive $6 billion investment to develop a 1-gigawatt facility and its supporting power infrastructure in Andhra Pradesh in its first-of-its-kind data centre investment in India, a report has said. Citing Andhra Pradesh government sources, news agency Reuters reported that the colossal data centre, slated for construction in Visakhapatnam, includes a $2 billion investment specifically for renewable energy capacity to power the facility.
The report says that this makes it the largest data centre in Asia by both capacity and investment size, forming part of Google’s broader multi-billion-dollar expansion of its data centre portfolio across the region, including Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.
