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Artificial Intelligence is playing a key role in pushing Google Cloud growth in India, which is one of the key markets for the technology giant. Thomas Kurian, global CEO of Google Cloud, said that unlike in the past, where cloud computing was solely about cost, AI changes the way customers think about which partner to choose .With AI becoming an integral part of the business, customers are looking at the data and tools that can accelerate their AI journey. With AI fuelling its growth in many ways, Google has been closing the gap with its larger peers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.“A lot of that has been because they started much earlier than us. You see that both in our revenue growth, which are public, in our bookings growth, and customer adoption,” Kurian said. Investment and tariffsGoogle is investing $75 billion in 2025, a large portion of it will be in infrastructure such as servers and data centers, despite the lack of clarity around tariffs. The announcements first came in February, which was reaffirmed by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai during the Google Cloud Next 2025 conference last week. Responding to ET’s question of tariffs, Kurian said, they have been through many issues in the past and they will continue to work with national governments to get the right resolution.
