New Delhi, Nov. 17 -- Alphabet's Google said it will invest$40 billion in three new data centres in Texas through 2027, part of a wider push to expand cloud and artificial-intelligence infrastructure. The move underscores growing competition among cloud and AI providers to add the capacity needed to train and run advanced models - and it carries clear local and industry implications.

Google named the sites for the new campuses: one in Armstrong County in the Texas Panhandle and two in Haskell County, west of Abilene. The company also said it will invest further in its existing Midlothian campus and the Dallas cloud region, extending its global network of cloud regions.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai framed the investment in local and econom...