{"id":1004808,"date":"2026-04-25T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004808"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:06:50","slug":"googles-15-billion-data-centre-in-vizag-to-host-5-gw-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/googles-15-billion-data-centre-in-vizag-to-host-5-gw-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s $15 billion data centre in Vizag to host 5-GW capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Cloud&#8217;s upcoming $15 billion artificial intelligence (AI) ready data centre in Vishakhapatnam will host capacity going up to 5 gigawatts (GW), CEO Thomas Kurian told ET on Thursday. While the company has till now only maintained the upcoming AI hub will be &#8216;gigawatt scale&#8217;, a 5 GW capacity is much more than India&#8217;s current total data centre capacity which was 1.5 GW as of 2025-end, according to official figures. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the sidelines of the ongoing Google Cloud Next 2026 annual summit here, Kurian told a select media roundtable that the upcoming campus will have multiple data centres. &#8220;And then, that goes up to 5 GW. That is a very, very large campus,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Cloud&#8217;s upcoming $15 billion artificial intelligence (AI) ready data centre in Vishakhapatnam will host capacity going up to 5 gigawatts (GW), CEO Thomas Kurian told ET on Thursday. While the company has till now only maintained the upcoming AI hub will be &#8216;gigawatt scale&#8217;, a 5 GW capacity is much more than India&#8217;s current total data centre capacity which was 1.5 GW as of 2025-end, according to official figures. Speaking on the sidelines of the ongoing Google Cloud Next 2026 annual summit here, Kurian told a select media roundtable that the upcoming campus will have multiple data centres. &#8220;And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004809,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004808\/revisions\/1004809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}