Google to invest $15 billion over the next five years to set up data centre capacity for an artificial intelligence hub in India’s Andhra Pradesh. This marks one of its biggest ever investments made by the Google in India.

“It’s the largest AI hub that we are going to be investing in anywhere in the world outside of the US,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said on Tuesday at a New Delhi event.

Investment earlier pegged at $10 billion by state officials

The 1-gigawatt data centre campus by the Alphabet Inc unit will be based in the port city of Visakhapatnam. Officials from the southern Indian state earlier put the investment at $10 billion.

The move comes amid intensifying competition among big tech companies, which are spending heavily on building new data centre infrastructur

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