{"id":1005605,"date":"2026-04-29T09:21:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005605"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:00:24","slug":"google-breaks-ground-on-indian-ai-megahub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/google-breaks-ground-on-indian-ai-megahub\/","title":{"rendered":"Google breaks ground on Indian AI megahub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Google on Tuesday marked the ceremonial start of work on its largest artificial intelligence hub outside of the United States with a groundbreaking ceremony in India. <\/p>\n<p>The firm promised in October 2025 to spend $15 billion over five years to construct the vast centre in Visakhapatnam, a southeastern port in Andhra Pradesh state of around two million people, popularly known as &#8220;Vizag&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today marks the first concrete milestone in Google&#8217;s largest commitment to India&#8217;s digital future,&#8221; Bikash Koley, Google&#8217;s Vice President for Global Infrastructure, told the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Google on Tuesday marked the ceremonial start of work on its largest artificial intelligence hub outside of the United States with a groundbreaking ceremony in India. The firm promised in October 2025 to spend $15 billion over five years to construct the vast centre in Visakhapatnam, a southeastern port in Andhra Pradesh state of around two million people, popularly known as &#8220;Vizag&#8221;. &#8220;Today marks the first concrete milestone in Google&#8217;s largest commitment to India&#8217;s digital future,&#8221; Bikash Koley, Google&#8217;s Vice President for Global Infrastructure, told the ceremony.<\/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-1005605","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\/1005605","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=1005605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}