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Alphabet Inc.’s Google is planning to invest more than $10 billion in southern India to set up a 1-gigawatt data center, marking one of its biggest bets in a market that’s key to its global expansion plans.

The Google data center — scheduled to be built within two years in the port city of Visakhapatnam — is part of a broader goal set by the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to develop 6 gigawatts of data center capacity by 2029, Nara Lokesh, the region’s technology minister, told Bloomberg News in an interview.

“It’s not just about the jobs,” said Lokesh, the son of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu. “It’s about the lar

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