Data center campus
Google Visakhapatnam AI Hub (Adani-Google Data Centre Campus)
Google Visakhapatnam AI Hub is an AI data center campus developed by AdaniConnex in Andhra Pradesh, Visakhapatnam. 1 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.
Under construction · AdaniConnex · Private land · other · Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced-to-energized gap: 1 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.
Promised online: 2026-04-28. 5 months past the claimed date, with no energized capacity on record. Claimed by Google (source).
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 1 GW | 2026-06-01 | reported | journalist report |
Key facts
Lifecycle
Announced
Energized
Developer
Location
Grid
Land
Announced-to-energized gap
Reported facts
Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.
- Groundbreaking / partners (company)
- Google broke ground Apr 28 2026 at Tarluvada, Visakhapatnam (Vizag), Andhra Pradesh on its India AI hub, developed with AdaniConneX and Nxtra by Airtel (Google Cloud Press Corner, Apr 28 2026)
- Investment envelope (company)
- Company materials frame the hub as part of Google's approximately $15 billion investment over five years (2026-2030) in India's AI ecosystem, called Google's largest investment in India's digital future to date (Google Cloud Press Corner, Apr 28 2026; Adani, Oct 14 2025)
- Campus structure (company)
- Google describes India's first gigawatt-scale AI hub as three data center campuses, with AdaniConneX and Nxtra by Airtel leading construction of buildings and connecting infrastructure (Google Cloud Press Corner, Apr 28 2026)
- Scale claim (partner quote)
- At groundbreaking, Adani Group's Jeet Adani said what is being built in Visakhapatnam is nearly 1 GW in a single location (Google Cloud Press Corner, Apr 28 2026)
- Connectivity / clean energy (company)
- Google ties the hub to America-India Connect fiber expansion, three subsea cables landing in Visakhapatnam (per Indian IT Minister remarks at the event), and a long-term clean energy strategy to bring new clean supply to the grid toward India's 500 GW non-fossil goal by 2030 (Google Cloud Press Corner, Apr 28 2026)
- Site acreage (trade press)
- Trade press reports the three sites span about 266.6 acres in Tarluvada, 160 acres in Adivivaram, and 174.8 acres in Rambilli-Achyutapuram, with commissioning aims around July 2028. Treat acreage splits and exact energization dates as reported, not company-filed MW schedules (Data Center Dynamics, Apr 28 2026)
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- Announced capex
- $15B
- Land owner
- Government of Andhra Pradesh
- Cost per MW
- $15M/MW
Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.
In clusterAndhra Pradesh(3)
The deal
- operator
- Google · Anchor; deploys full AI stack at the hub
- developer
- AdaniConneX · 50:50 JV of Adani Enterprises and EdgeConneX; infrastructure developer
- operator
- Nxtra by Airtel (Bharti Airtel) · Connectivity / subsea cable ecosystem partner
- land owner
- Government of Andhra Pradesh · Allotted 480 acres (Visakhapatnam / Anakapalli districts) to Adani Infra
- developer
- AdaniConnex
Power
- Power source
- mixed
- Grid operator
- other
- Interconnection
Why here
Google Visakhapatnam AI Hub sits on private land in Andhra Pradesh, Visakhapatnam. It connects to the other grid, draws on mixed power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.
Financial structure
- Google investment in Andhra Pradesh, 2026-2030
- $15B press release
Regulatory paper trail
The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.
Investment, workforce and specs
- Construction jobs
- tens of thousands of jobs in technology, construction and clean energy source
Timeline
- Aug 2026party addedland_owner: Government of Andhra Pradesh
- Oct 2026Current: Under construction
Sources
- Adani and Google Partner to Build India's Largest Data Centre Campus in Visakhapatnam
- Google Breaks Ground on India AI Hub in Visakhapatnam
- Google confirms $15bn data center project in Andhra Pradesh, India - DCD
- Google breaks ground on $15bn data center project in India
b0ab3fbf-df7d-4bcd-bc2e-a5532cf92542 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.
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DEPLOY. (2026). Google Visakhapatnam AI Hub (Adani-Google Data Centre Campus): AI data center campus record. Retrieved October 4, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/google-visakhapatnam-ai-hub
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