New Delhi: A big shift is taking shape on India’s east coast. Google is preparing to set up its first large-scale data centre cluster in the country, and it has picked Visakhapatnam as the home for the project. The investment is worth $10 billion, or roughly Rs 88,730 crore at current currency conversion, and is being described as the biggest direct push by Google into India’s digital economy.

The project will not just be a cluster of servers hidden inside buildings. It is designed as a full-fledged digital infrastructure hub, complete with submarine cables, landing stations, and high-capacity fiber networks. If all goes as planned, this cluster could be operational by July 2028 and will become part of India’s first international AI Infrastructure Hub.

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