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The Government of Andhra Pradesh and Google connected Tuesday (October 14, 2025) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) successful New Delhi, to found a monolithic AI-powered information centre successful Visakhapatnam with an concern of ₹87,520 crore.
The MoU was signed successful the beingness of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Union IT and Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, and Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh, on with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and elder institution officials.
The projected information centre, with a capableness of 1 gigawatt, is expected to look arsenic a cardinal planetary hub for AI and unreality computing. It volition service sectors specified arsenic healthcare, education, agriculture, and industry, portion connecting Visakhapatnam with Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and 12 different countries done a subsea cablegram network.
Mr. Thomas Kurian said this is the company’s largest concern extracurricular the United States, and that Visakhapatnam volition soon go a planetary connectivity hub.
The task is expected to pull $15 cardinal (₹1.25 lakh crore) successful phased investments implicit the adjacent 5 years and assistance nurture world-class AI endowment successful India.
Mr. Naidu welcomed Google’s determination and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Union Ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and Nirmala Sitharaman for their support. He besides appreciated IT Minister Nara Lokesh for his pivotal relation successful facilitating the project.
Mr. Naidu said the State’s ‘One Family, One Entrepreneur’ inaugural aims to beforehand innovation and entrepreneurship, ensuring that AI exertion reaches each household. “With entree to real-time and humanities data, we tin marque faster and much informed decisions. Prime Minister Modi is simply a person who swiftly embraces technology,” the Chief Minister noted.
He besides stated that Prime Minister Modi is considering organizing a Global AI Conference successful Visakhapatnam successful February 2026, successful designation of India’s increasing enactment successful emerging technologies.
