India just posted the kind of FDI numbers that make economic development ministers weep tears of joy. Foreign direct investment in the country surged 73% in 2025 to hit $47 billion, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. The driving force behind that jump isn’t manufacturing or pharmaceuticals. It’s data centers and AI infrastructure, with Alphabet leading the charge.
On October 14, 2025, Google’s parent company announced its largest-ever single-country investment commitment: $15 billion over five years to build an AI hub and a massive data center campus in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. That’s not a typo. Fifteen billion dollars, earmarked for 2026 through 2030, making it the company’s biggest AI hub outside the United States.
The big three are all in
Alphabet isn’t playing this game alone. Microsoft has committed $17.5 billion to India’s tech infrastructure, and Amazon has made its own substantial pledges. Combined, the three companies have announced roughly $67.5 billion in investments since October.
The Alphabet project alone is expected to generate approximately 188,000 jobs. The Adani Group is also getting in on the action, planning to invest up to $5 billion in the Google project through a joint venture aimed at meeting surging data capacity demand.
