Google scaling up India’s cloud services with second set of data centers

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is expanding its cloud infrastructure in India with a second set of data centers in and around the capital New Delhi to meet growing customer demands in a key growth market, senior company executives said. Google The cloud region in Delhi and its outskirts is the US tech giant’s second infrastructure in the country and tenth in Asia Pacific. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said at a news conference, “We have seen a huge increase in demand for Google Cloud services in India, so expanding our footprint into a new cloud sector gives us more potential for growth over several years. ability to do so.” This week ahead of a formal announcement on Thursday. “This is a major commitment on our part in capital and infrastructure investments and it is designed to allow us to capture the opportunity that we see around growth,” he said.

Kurian said the new infrastructure will help provide solutions to problems such as disaster recovery within India and ensure low latency for many state-run enterprises in and around Delhi. Google did not say how much it had invested in setting up the new cloud features. Google Cloud’s India unit managing director Bikram Singh Bedi said India’s fledgling startup economy has also helped accelerate and accelerate the use of cloud services.