India, July 31 -- Big tech giant Google's parent Alphabet is reportedly planning to invest $6 Bn to build a 1 gigawatt (GW) data centre and allied power infrastructure in Andhra Pradesh.

Sources told Reuters that the data centre will be built in the port city of Visakhapatnam. As per the report, the investment will also include a $2 Bn infusion towards renewable energy capacity that will power the upcoming facility.

Touted as Alphabet's first such investment in India, the new unit will be the big tech major's biggest data centre in Asia, both in terms of capacity as well as investment size.

Meanwhile, the state's IT minister Nara Lokesh told Reuters, "We've made certain announcements like Sify (550-MW data centre to be built in the sta...