Come September 2028, and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh may become home to Google’s India AI Hub, a $15 billion (Rs 1.4 lakh crore) artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure project Google subsidiary Raiden Infotech is developing in partnership with AdaniConnex and Airtel’s Nxtra. Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu presided over its groundbreaking ceremony this April. His government has also allotted 855 acres at Bhogapuram in neighbouring Vizianagaram district to Reliance Industries for a 1.5 GW (gigawatt) data centre. Several other projects are in the pipeline, including a 500 MW facility being developed by Sify in partnership with Meta.
