(Reuters) -India’s Adani Group plans to invest up to $5 billion in Alphabet-owned Google’s India AI data centre project, an executive said on Friday, as it seeks to cash in on booming demand for data capacity in the world’s most populous nation.

In October, Google said it would invest $15 billion over five years to set up an artificial intelligence data centre in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, its biggest investment in India.

AI requires enormous computing power, pushing demand for specialised data centres that enable thousands of chips to be linked in clusters.

Adani Group CFO Jugeshinder Singh said the Google project could mean an investment of up to $5 billion for Adani Connex – a joint venture between Adani Enterprises and private data centre operator EdgeConneX.

“It’s not j

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