Google will invest $15 billion to build data center capacity for a new artificial intelligence hub in southern India, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian announced at an event Tuesday.

The investment will roll out over the next five years, and will be Google's largest AI hub in the world outside of the U.S, Kurian added.

Earlier on Monday, the Minister for Human Resources Development of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Nara Lokesh, put the 1-gigawatt project at $10 billion.

The deal comes after "a year of intense discussions and relentless effort," and "is just the beginning," Lokesh said in a post on the social media platform X.

The Indian outlet Economic Times previously reported that the investment would be made by Google's Indian subsidiary Raiden Infotech, which plans

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