New Delhi: Government documents and individuals who have been made aware of the project reveal that Google is intending to open a large artificial intelligence data centre on the remote Indian Ocean island, Christmas Island, Australia. This action by the tech giant is based on a cloud computing agreement signed earlier this year with the Department of Defence in Australia that will put the facility in the heart of the new defence technology network in the country.

Christmas Island, some 350 kilometres south of the Indonesian coast, is increasingly becoming a strategic point of interest due to the increasing tensions in the region. Although Google has not officially announced the project, local authorities and documents obtained by Reuters show that the firm is actively engaged in negotia

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