Amazon announces mega investment in India

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🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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From the BBC World Service: Amazon has announced plans to double its investment in India by 2030 — to the tune of around $35 billion — with a focus on artificial intelligence and e-commerce. It comes after Microsoft and Google also laid out multibillion-dollar spending plans for AI in India. Also, the U.K.'s Royal Navy is developing ways to counter an increasingly serious threat from Russia to cut its critical undersea infrastructure.

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0:46.0	Amazon becomes the latest tech giant to announce a mega investment in India.
0:50.8	Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. I'm
0:55.3	William Lee Adams. Good morning. Amazon has announced plans to double its investment in India by 2030,
1:02.2	focused on artificial intelligence and e-commerce. It comes after Microsoft and Google also laid out
1:07.8	multi-billion dollar spending plans for AI in India.
1:13.4	The BBC's Archina Shukla is in Delhi.
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