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Visakhapatnam volition look arsenic an AI hub successful Southeast Asia nether the visionary enactment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to BJP State president P.V.N. Madhav.
“What IT has done to Hyderabad successful 30 years, AI volition bash it for Visakhapatnam now,” Mr. Madhav said present connected Tuesday.
The installation would pull immense investments, creating employment and shaping India’s integer future, helium observed.
“The Prime Minister has been according peculiar absorption to Andhra Pradesh by allocating mammoth projects, with the latest being the Google Data Centre and AI Hub with an concern of ₹1.33 lakh crore,” helium said.
Mr. Madhav said the Google task was the largest FDI successful the country. An undersea cablegram web would link 12 countries crossed Southeast Asia. The task would firmly spot Visakhapatnam connected the satellite map.
He made a PowerPoint presumption of the Centre’s efforts to bring Google to Visakhapatnam, successful the beingness of the representatives of IT entrepreneurs and media.
While explaining the efforts of the Centre to bring Google to Visakhapatnam, Mr. Madhav said the Centre had taken large steps to fortify the AI ecosystem. The India AI Mission, which was approved successful March 2024 with an archetypal fund of ₹10,371 crore, got a large boost successful September 2025 with the doubling of funds to ₹20,000 crore.
Both Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai and Mr. Modi met and discussed astir the task precocious successful New Delhi, and yet made an authoritative announcement earlier this month, helium said.
“The Prime Minister reiterated that India should alteration from AI consumers to AI creators. Therefore, helium is taking steps towards AI instauration arsenic portion of his committedness to Atmanirbhar Bharat. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu is besides supporting Mr. Modi’s vision,” Mr. Madhav said.
Later, addressing the media, Mr. Madhav said the Modi authorities was giving a beardown boost to the maturation of Andhra Pradesh by providing respective first-of-its-kind projects to the State, which was making it a nationalist and planetary concern destination.
Referring to immoderate of the projects, helium said that NTPC’s greenish hydrogen vigor task successful Visakhapatnam with an concern of ₹1.8 lakh crore was the archetypal greenish vigor task successful the country. Secondly, South India’s archetypal semiconductor manufacturing installation was besides coming up successful Andhra Pradesh. BPCL was mounting up a mega lipid refinery successful Nellore with an concern of ₹84,000 crore, helium added.
“Now, the Google task is going to beryllium a crippled changer, putting Visakhapatnam connected the planetary exertion map,” Mr. Madhav said.
He said YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy did not responded to the Google task truthful far, and this indicated that they were not funny successful welcoming specified a large facility. He besides criticised the IT Minister of Karnataka for commenting connected the Google project.
