Google Announces $15 Billion Investment In AI Hub In India (apnews.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/14/2112250/google-announces-15-billion-investment-in-ai-hub-in-india
- Source link: https://apnews.com/article/google-artificial-intelligence-visakhapatnam-modi-pichai-ba8fd50e11e41bbdb72097dd10262283
> Google announced on Tuesday that it will [1]invest $15 billion in India over the next five years to establish its first artificial intelligence hub in the country. Located in the southern city of Visakhapatnam, the hub will be one of Google's largest globally. It will feature gigawatt-scale data center operations, extensive energy infrastructure and an expanded fiber-optic network, the company said in a statement. The investment underscores Google's growing reliance on India as a key technology and talent base in the global race for AI dominance.
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> For India, it brings in high-value infrastructure and foreign investment at a scale that can accelerate its digital transformation ambitions. Google said its AI hub investment will include construction of a new international subsea gateway that would connect to the company's more than 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) of existing terrestrial and subsea cables. "The initiative creates substantial economic and societal opportunities for both India and the United States, while pioneering a generational shift in AI capability," the company's statement said.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/google-artificial-intelligence-visakhapatnam-modi-pichai-ba8fd50e11e41bbdb72097dd10262283
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The AI is in charge now. Not only the editors, but the readers and commenters are all AI. Soon the ads will be geared towards AI too, you'll see offers for free or discounted tokens if you click it.
Thanks, but no thanks. (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't need my AI agent to bombard me with the the type of "wisdom" I have witnessed coming from Indian tech contractors.
Wnglish (Score:1)
What the hell is a "generational shift in AI capability?"
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It's when there's a dynamic transformation manifesting in a paradigm realignment.
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> It's when there's a dynamic transformation manifesting in a paradigm realignment.
Why didn't they just say that?
Wait, What?? (Score:4, Interesting)
Does Trump know about this? He'll be pissed.
As an American it's hard to compete (Score:1)
Our healthcare system right off the bat adds between 10 and 15,000 to my cost as an employee. This means I have to bring a shitload more value even before accounting for the wage differences.
I have lost opportunities to both Canada and London and if you're reading this you probably have too. My personal favorite although technically I wasn't going to apply for this was seeing a project in a call center I worked at go to canada to access the cheaper employees thanks to the single-payer healthcare system.
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It's $5B short.
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Has nothing on the "savings" of 2T that a certain space cadet promised in January, which somehow turned to an extra $220B spent.
[1]https://www.techdirt.com/2025/... [techdirt.com]
Go figure.
[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/14/musk-promised-to-cut-2-trillion-government-spending-went-up-instead/