Google Pledges $15 Billion to Build India’s First Full-Stack AI Hub

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a $15 billion AI infrastructure investment in India, including a landmark full-stack AI hub in Visakhapatnam

Google has made one of its biggest commitments to India to date. At the India AI Impact Summit 2026 on February 19. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced a $15 billion infrastructure investment in the country and at the centre of that plan is a full-stack AI hub to be built in Visakhapatnam (Vizag).

Speaking at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, Pichai reflected on his student days travelling through Vizag by train, describing it then as a quiet and modest coastal city brimming with potential. He said, Now in that same city, Google is establishing a full-stack AI hub, part of our $15 billion infrastructure investment in India. When finished, this hub will house gigawatt-scale compute and a new international subsea cable gateway.

Pichai described AI as the biggest platform shift of our lifetimes, drawing parallels to Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, an AI that solved a 50-year-old protein-folding problem and is now used by over three million researchers across 190 countries for drug discovery. No technology has me dreaming bigger than AI, he said.

Beyond Vizag, Google also announced the America-India Connect Initiative, a strategic network of new fibre-optic subsea cables to improve digital connectivity between the US and India. Additionally, Google.org announced a $30 million AI for Government Innovation Impact Challenge and a $30 million AI for Science Impact Challenge to support global research and public-sector AI adoption.

Google also unveiled a partnership with Karmayogi Bharat under India’s Mission Karmayogi, which supports professional development for over 20 million public servants across 800+ districts, with content progressively available in 18+ Indian languages.

The Vizag announcement positions India and specifically its southern coastal city as a global node in AI infrastructure, a significant shift that could accelerate domestic AI capabilities and attract further international investment.