Google Cloud’s upcoming data centre campus in Visakhapatnam will reach a capacity of up to 5 gigawatts (GW), CEO Thomas Kurian revealed at the Google Cloud Next 2026 summit in Las Vegas in April 2026. The $15 billion investment will be built over five years, from 2026 to 2030, and will comprise multiple data centres on a single campus.
To put the scale in context, India’s total data centre capacity stood at 1.5 GW at the end of 2025, according to official figures. A 5 GW campus would dwarf that existing national capacity. Google describes the project as its largest investment in India to date and its single largest investment outside the United States.
Kurian made the announcement on the sidelines of the annual summit, telling a select media roundtable: “And then, that goes up to 5 GW. That is a very, very large campus.”
When operational, the Visakhapatnam campus will join Google’s network of AI data centres spanning 12 countries. Google Cloud can transfer workloads between centres during crises — a capability it exercised most recently during hostilities in the Middle East. On the question of India’s data localisation rules, Kurian noted that governments, including those in the Middle East during recent crises, have granted critical infrastructure companies flexibility to move data across regions. He added that within India, Google’s existing cloud regions in Mumbai and Delhi are homogenous, allowing replication between them in an emergency.
Kurian also pointed to rising demand for AI compute as context for the investment. API throughput on Google’s platform grew from 10 billion tokens per minute in December 2025 to 16 billion tokens per minute by March 2026 — a 50% increase in three months. He noted that global demand for compute capacity is currently outstripping supply.
Source: Tech-Economic Times