Google has announced plans to invest $15 billion over the next five years in setting an artificial intelligence hub in Visakhapatnam. The company made the announcement at an event in New Delhi today. On the occasion, Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared that he discussed the project with PM Narendra Modi. Pichai said that during his interaction with PM, he highlighted how the Google AI hub will help accelerate AI innovation and support India’s growing digital economy.In a post on Twitter, Pichai wrote, “Great to speak with India PM @narendramodi @OfficialINDIAai to share our plans for the first-ever Google AI hub in Visakhapatnam, a landmark development. This hub combines gigawatt-scale compute capacity, a new international subsea gateway, and large-scale energy infrastructure. Through it we will bring our industry-leading technology to enterprises and users in India, accelerating AI innovation and driving growth across the country.” He also stated “We are incredibly proud of what today stands for. Google has been in India for a long time. It’s our 21st year here. We have 14,000 people working for us across five locations, and we launched our cloud solutions in India several years ago. We also have two regions, New Delhi and Mumbai, and manufacture our devices here,”.The AI hub will offer a full stack of solutions using Google’s proprietary TPUs (Processing Units), which are twice as power-efficient. Data will be housed locally to meet sovereign AI requirements, and Google will deploy its own models, including Gemini, Imagine, and Veo.“The hub is designed to provide full AI infrastructure to serve not just our own needs but also the needs of entrepreneurs, enterprises, and commercial organizations in India,” Kurian said.