Google's $15 bn AI hub in Vizag driven by rising India demand: exec

Google Cloud's $15 billion AI investment in Visakhapatnam aims to meet rising local demand for sovereign data and AI solutions, says global revenue head Matt Renner, calling India a key growth market

Google expects an increase in demand from customers with the setting up of its $15 billion artificial intelligence (AI) data hub in Visakhapatnam, said Matt Renner, president of global revenue at Google Cloud.

 

“There is a very progressive set of demands from companies in India, especially in the business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) spaces, when it comes to AI. We are seeing very broad and diverse demand from customers in India and trying to meet that with our infrastructure,” Renner said during a virtual press conference on Wednesday.

 

Sovereign in-country investments, such as the one made by Google in