New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- Google has announced plans to invest $15 billion in setting up artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Andhra Pradesh's port city of Vishakhapatnam. Mint explains what this means for India's broader technology and jobs ecosystem.

AI is by far the biggest data user at the moment, primarily because it consumes and processes vast amounts of information to produce results.

Companies require large, at-scale data centre infrastructure to train large AI models, the largest of which are based on multiple trillions of data parameters. Even more challenging is making such AI models available without limitations and latencies to users worldwide.

The availability of these facilities closer to users makes it...