Reliance JV to set up 1 GW data centre in Vizag at ₹98,000 crore investment

NEW DELHIVIJAYAWADA

The Andhra Pradesh Government has announced the mounting up of a 1 Gigawatt (GW) information centre by Digital Connexion, a associated task of Reliance Industries, Brookfield and Digital Realty, successful Visakhapatnam astatine an concern of ₹98,000 crore by 2030. The MoU for the task has been signed with the AP Economic Development Board (APEDB) connected Wednesday, according to an authoritative release.

The projected analyzable would beryllium built to planetary standards and diagnostic high-density AI-ready racks, dedicated powerfulness substations, redundant powerfulness feeds, and robust connectivity to enactment hyper-scalers, endeavor clients, unreality services, and aboriginal AI workloads.

The State authorities would widen afloat enactment for the project’s seamless execution, which includes facilitating the allocation of 400 acres of land, expediting regulatory and biology clearances, ensuring uninterrupted powerfulness supply, connectivity, and different indispensable infrastructure.

The concern by Reliance and its planetary partners strengthens A.P.’s semipermanent imaginativeness of transforming the State into a nationalist hub for AI, unreality infrastructure, and technology-driven growth. It reinforces the government’s committedness to gathering a future-ready integer system that empowers investors, industries, and the younker alike paving the mode for sustained growth, innovation, and competitiveness connected a planetary scale, the authorities said.

The MoU marks the latest big-ticket concern successful the information centre and electronics manufacturing abstraction — 2 large absorption points for the Union authorities — that has travel successful States with National Democratic Alliance (NDA) governments. Visakhapatnam volition besides big Google’s AI Hub, a information centre representing the tech giant’s largest concern successful India, of ₹87,520 crore. Opposition leaders person accused the Centre of redirecting investments primitively planned for States governed by non-NDA governments.

Of the 10 semiconductor fabrication and OSAT plants approved nether the India Semiconductor Mission, lone one, Continental Device India Pvt. Ltd.’s Mohali facility, is successful a State with an Opposition-led State government.

AP precocious announced an MoU with Tillman Global to physique a information centre field for ₹15,000 crore.