Elon Musk calls Google’s $40 billion Texas investment ‘mind-blowing’, CEO Sundar Pichai responds: ‘Between abundant sand, plenty of sun and space..’ – The Times of India

Google has announced a significant investment in its US infrastructure, pledging $40 billion toward expansion in Texas through 2027. This represents one of the company’s largest US infrastructure initiatives to date. Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed the investment in an online post which has drawn praise from rival tech billionaire Elon Musk, who called the AI spending spree “mind-blowing” while predicting even greater expenditures ahead.The exchange between Musk and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on social media highlighted both the scale of investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and Texas’s emergence as a major tech hub, with Pichai touting the state’s natural advantages for data center development.

$40 billion commitment to Cloud and AI

Pichai announced the investment in a social media post, describing it as one of Google’s largest US infrastructure commitments to date.“Today, we’re announcing a new $40B…