{"id":1005667,"date":"2026-04-29T10:07:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005667"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:40:09","slug":"googles-15-billion-data-centre-to-turn-visakhapatnam-into-ai-hub-says-union-minister-ashwini-vaishnaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/googles-15-billion-data-centre-to-turn-visakhapatnam-into-ai-hub-says-union-minister-ashwini-vaishnaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s $15 billion data centre to turn Visakhapatnam into AI hub, says Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s growing digital strength is evident, said Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday, as Google broke ground on its landmark India AI hub in Visakhapatnam, marking what it called its \u201clargest investment in India\u2019s digital future to date. The AI hub is part of Google\u2019s $15 billion commitment in India over a five-year period from 2026 to 2030. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing the foundation ceremony for the Google Cloud India AI facility at Tarluvada in Visakhapatnam, he described the project as a significant milestone in building India\u2019s AI-powered digital backbone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s growing digital strength is evident, said Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday, as Google broke ground on its landmark India AI hub in Visakhapatnam, marking what it called its \u201clargest investment in India\u2019s digital future to date. The AI hub is part of Google\u2019s $15 billion commitment in India over a five-year period from 2026 to 2030. Addressing the foundation ceremony for the Google Cloud India AI facility at Tarluvada in Visakhapatnam, he described the project as a significant milestone in building India\u2019s AI-powered digital backbone.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005667","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=1005667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}