Google chooses Puebla state as the site of its first AI lab in Mexico

Google volition motorboat its archetypal artificial quality (AI) laboratory successful Mexico, successful Puebla state, successful January 2026, the authorities Science and Technology Minister Celina Peña Guzmán announced past week. 

The commercialized manager of Google Cloud, Manuel Tierno, confirmed the task during a Tech Capital Summit successful Puebla successful October, though helium did not specify the project’s determination oregon outgo astatine that time.  

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The task volition absorption connected applied tools developed done Google Labs. Google AI Labs is an innovation and probe halfway dedicated to the development, investigating and nationalist objection of cutting-edge artificial quality projects and technologies.

Peña Guzmán said she expected the laboratory to beryllium constructed successful the national government’s 400-hectare Development Hub for Wellbeing, formally known arsenic Ciudad Modelo, successful the municipality of San José Chiapa.

Google sees the task arsenic an accidental to trim bureaucracy and physique technological information that benefits citizens. “These strategical alliances enactment young radical and alteration authorities processes,” Peña Guzmán said successful a July press statement. 

A 600-million-peso (US $32.8 million) energy substation is being developed successful the area, astir 65 km from Puebla city, according to the authorities government’s furniture coordinator, José Luis García Parra. 

The substation is expected to beryllium completed by February 2026 and volition supply 60 megawatt-hours of powerfulness to enactment the operations of some home and planetary companies launching projects successful the region. 

Earlier this year, the metropolis of Puebla was dubbed the Capital of Technology and Sustainability, which has attracted much involvement from exertion companies. 

Tech firms specified arsenic Amazon, Oracle and Huawei volition assistance the state’s Education Ministry amended its interior processes and make applied tools for students, according to Peña Guzmán. 

With reports from Proceso and Telediario