India, Oct. 14 -- Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday announced plans to set up the first-ever Google AI hub in Visakhapatnam, calling it a "landmark development" that will combine gigawatt-scale compute capacity, a new international subsea gateway, and large-scale energy infrastructure.

"Great to speak with India PM @narendramodi @OfficialINDIAai to share our plans for the first-ever Google AI hub in Visakhapatnam, a landmark development," Pichai said in a post on X.

The announcement came during Bharat AI Shakti, a flagship event hosted by Google in New Delhi, where the company also unveiled a $15 billion investment plan over the next five years to build the Visakhapatnam hub - its largest AI facility outside the United States.

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