There is a city on India’s eastern coastline that is quietly becoming one of the most consequential pieces of global tech infrastructure you’ve never thought about. Visakhapatnam, known locally as Vizag, sits in the state of Andhra Pradesh and has historically been known for its port, its steel plants, and its naval base. It is now being redrawn as a gigawatt-scale AI compute hub, with investment commitments that rival anything happening in Singapore or the American Sun Belt.
The numbers are not modest. Google announced a $15 billion AI data center investment in October 2025, its first such project on Indian soil, with construction officially beginning on April 28, 2026. The facility is a 1 gigawatt campus developed in partnership with AdaniConneX and Airtel’s infrastructure arm Nxtra, and it will include subsea cable infrastructure designed to deepen Vizag’s role as a connectivity node across the Asia-Pacific region.
Who else is building, and how big
Google is not alone in making this bet. Meta has partnered with Sify Technologies on a 500 megawatt facility in Paradesipalem, backed by roughly $1.8 billion in capital. Then there is the consortium play. Reliance, Brookfield, and Digital Connexion are planning an $11 billion AI-native development targeting 1 gigawatt of capacity across 400 acres.
