Google’s India AI Hub Cleared for 2.51GW, Not 1GW
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Google’s India AI hub cleared for 2.51GW, not 1GW
Google’s $15bn AI datacentre project in Andhra Pradesh has state environmental clearance for 2.51GW of capacity, more than double the 1GW announced, according to clearance papers seen by the Guardian. Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan reported the story from Tarluvada, one of the villages where the project is being built. The Guardian said 2.51GW is roughly […] This story continues at The Next Web
The AI hub that Google is building in Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh, India) along with its partners AdaniConneX and Airtel has an official history and a real history, and they differ in something quite concrete: the approved capacity. The official story, that of the October 2025 announcement with an investment of 15 billion dollars... Continue reading »The news Google builds in India an AI hub of 15 billion that has approved twice as much capaci…
Documents cited by The Guardian indicate that Google’s AI center in Andhra Pradesh has environmental clearance for 2.51 GW, more than twice the publicly mentioned capacity. The project also faces land claims, judicial questions, and concerns about its energy scale.
Broken promises, confiscated land: the hyperscale AI datacentre being built in a tiny Indian village
Locals say Google’s $15bn project in Andhra Pradesh has resulted in smallholdings being taken back off them by the government When the government officials arrived in Tarluvada last year, they came with abundant promises. Google, one of the world’s richest and most powerful tech companies, would soon be bringing a “golden opportunity” to this tiny…
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