- Google to invest $15 billion in India’s largest AI center outside the US
- The center is partnered with Adani and Airtel, in addition to a new underwater gateway.
- The global race for AI data centers intensifies with major projects in the United Arab Emirates, Argentina and Saudi Arabia
The explosion in the use of generative AI around the world means that companies are now investing in new data centers to keep up with the extreme boom in infrastructure demand. The latest of these is Google’s $15 billion investment to build a data center campus in southern India.
This investment will be implemented over a five-year project and will be one of the largest investments ever made in the country. “It’s the largest AI center we’re going to invest in anywhere in the world outside of the United States,” said Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian.
There has been growing concern about the environmental impact of data centers, as well as the rising energy costs for those living around them. Rightly so, commented state IT Minister Nara Lokesh; “In an era where data is the new oil, these types of initiatives will be a strategic advantage.”
Data is the new oil
The 1 gigawatt data center is planned for Visakhapatnam city and will be the largest in capacity and investment size in Asia. This agreement was preceded by “a year of intense discussions and tireless efforts” and “is just the beginning,” Lokesh said in a post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter).
This new project is a partnership between Google, Adani Group and India’s Airtel, and includes a new international underwater gateway.
The race for AI data centers is on, as several are building or have recently announced plans to build AI data centers and the infrastructure that goes with them. PakGazette recently announced that the first 200 megawatts of a planned 5-gigawatt AI campus in the United Arab Emirates should come online next year, citing an official at Abu Dhabi-backed AI and cloud company G42.
This follows Microsoft’s announcement that it will build the “world’s most powerful data center” in the latest billion-dollar splurge on AI, powered by hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, connected with enough fiber to circle the globe four times.
Amazon isn’t left out, however, as its data center capital spending recently surpassed $100 billion as the company looks to increase its 32% cloud market share.
Via: PakGazette
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