India, Oct. 14 -- Google on Tuesday announced its second-largest AI hub outside the US, which it will operate out of Vizag in Andhra Pradesh. The company will invest $15 billion over the next five years to deploy its full AI stack, marking its biggest investment in India. The announcement comes after Google and the Andhra Pradesh government signed a formal MoU to develop the hub and associated infrastructure.

"It [Google AI hub] is part of a global network of AI centres in 12 different countries, but it is the largest one that we will be building anywhere in the world outside of the US," said Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, adding that the data centre will scale to multiple gigawatts in the future. He recalled that the company has been i...