United Kingdom, Nov. 17 -- Elon Musk has called Google's decision to pour $40 billion into new AI and cloud infrastructure in Texas "mind-blowing".

The company announced its multi-year Texas initiative runs through 2027 and includes new data-centre campuses in Armstrong and Haskell Counties as part of a broader effort to strengthen America's AI computing backbone.

Google has said the investment will support everything from cloud services to advanced AI workloads, while also bolstering domestic energy capacity and local job creation.

Musk reacted to the announcement on X, spotlighting the sheer size of the project.

He wrote: "It's mind-blowing how much money is being spent on AI compute so fast!

"But still many orders of magnitude to ...