Technology & Science
Google Pledges $15 B for Visakhapatnam Full-Stack AI Hub, Warns of Emerging ‘AI Divide’
On 19 Feb 2026 at the India AI Impact Summit, Sundar Pichai committed Google to a US$15 billion build-out of gigawatt-scale compute and a subsea-cable gateway in Visakhapatnam, positioning the once-quiet port city as a global AI nerve-centre while urging governments and firms to act jointly so the digital divide does not become an AI divide.