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VIJAYAWADA
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu met Prime Minister Narendra Modi successful New Delhi connected Sunday and extended heartfelt congratulations connected the latter’s singular 25 years successful nationalist work arsenic Head of Government.
During the meeting, Naidu lauded the Prime Minister’s visionary enactment successful driving the ‘NextGen GST reforms’, describing them arsenic ‘transformative and people-centric’.
Mr. Naidu announced that the upcoming ‘Super GST – Super Savings’ lawsuit successful Kurnool would observe nationalist enthusiasm for the initiative. He invited the Prime Minister to grace the occasion.
Mr. Naidu besides invited Mr. Modi to preside implicit the CII Partnership Summit 2025, scheduled to beryllium held successful Visakhapatnam connected November 14 and 15. The acme aims to showcase Andhra Pradesh’s increasing concern imaginable and its committedness to becoming a cardinal concern destination successful India’s economical landscape.
Mr. Naidu said that the Prime Minister’s information successful the lawsuit would animate investors and stakeholders to fortify India’s economical resurgence.
On October 14, Mr. Naidu is scheduled to enactment successful a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremonial betwixt the Government of Andhra Pradesh and Google astatine Hotel Taj Mansingh, New Delhi.
The statement involves the constitution of Asia’s archetypal 1-gigawatt hyperscale information centre field successful Visakhapatnam, representing an concern of astir USD 10 cardinal (₹ 84,000 crore).
The task volition service arsenic the cornerstone of the ambitious ‘AI City Vizag’ initiative, combining cutting-edge AI infrastructure, information capacity, renewable vigor integration, and planetary fibre-optic connectivity.
The installation volition nexus straight with Google’s planetary web done resilient subsea and terrestrial systems, positioning Visakhapatnam arsenic a cardinal node successful India’s integer future.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Union Information & Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw volition be the event, on with Google’s apical planetary executives, including Thomas Kurian (CEO, Google Cloud), Bikash Koley (vice-president, Global Infrastructure), and Karan Bajwa (president, Asia Pacific Google Cloud).
Speaking up of the event, IT Minister Nara Lokesh described the task arsenic a ‘transformative measurement for the aboriginal of Andhra Pradesh and a defining infinitesimal successful India’s AI-driven growth.’
According to estimates, the information centre task projected successful Visakhapatnam is expected to lend an mean of ₹10,518 crore to Andhra Pradesh’s Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) annually betwixt 2028 and 2032, portion supporting astir 1.88 lakh nonstop and indirect jobs each year. The inaugural is apt to make productivity spillovers valued astatine ₹47,720 crore implicit 5 years, driven by Google Cloud’s ecosystem.
The task has been approved by the State Investment Promotion Board (SIPB) and volition beryllium facilitated done single-window clearances, renewable vigor integration, and plug-and-play infrastructure managed by the Economic Development Board and the Department of ITE&C.
