Vizag will become data centre hub and Amaravati quantum hub says Naidu

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) outlined an ambitious, semipermanent exertion and infrastructure roadmap for Andhra Pradesh, announcing that Visakhapatnam is accelerated emerging arsenic a planetary hub for information centres, portion Amaravati volition anchor the State’s cognition system arsenic India’s dedicated Quantum Valley.

Addressing students, academics and manufacture stakeholders during the “Quantum Talk by CM CBN” programme, Mr. Naidu said Visakhapatnam’s beardown subsea cablegram connectivity and integer infrastructure were positioning it arsenic a cardinal node successful the planetary information ecosystem. He added that Tirupati is being developed arsenic a Space City, portion regions specified arsenic Anantapur and Kadapa volition germinate into large electronics and aerospace hubs, creating a distributed yet interconnected innovation web crossed the State.

Drawing parallels with his IT Vision launched astir 25 years ago, the Chief Minister said bold argumentation decisions taken successful the past had laid the instauration for the IT gyration successful the past undivided Andhra Pradesh. “Just arsenic Silicon Valley shaped the integer age, Amaravati’s Quantum Valley volition anchor the cognition system of the future,” helium said, stressing that technological reasoning and innovation are profoundly rooted successful India’s civilisational ethos.

Mr. Naidu highlighted India’s humanities contributions to municipality planning, mathematics, astronomy and education, citing Takshashila and Nalanda, and noted that India, erstwhile contributing astir 40% of planetary GDP, has present risen to go the world’s fourth-largest economy. He said technology-driven maturation successful the services assemblage has had an interaction greater than adjacent the Green and Industrial Revolutions.

Referring to caller investments, helium announced that Google is acceptable to found its largest information centre successful Visakhapatnam, further strengthening the city’s planetary integer profile. He besides pointed to the improvement of large concern corridors linking Visakhapatnam–Chennai, Chennai–Bengaluru and Bengaluru–Hyderabad arsenic catalysts for concern expansion.

Quantum skilling

The Chief Minister formally launched what helium described arsenic the world’s largest quantum skilling programme, with implicit 50,000 registrations successful conscionable 10 days, implemented successful concern with WISER and Qubitech. Notably, women relationship for 51% of the participants. He announced that Andhra Pradesh aims to statesman producing quantum computers wrong 2 years and revealed plans for a broad Quantum and Green Hydrogen Valley with a 20-year roadmap.

Explaining the transformative imaginable of quantum technologies, Mr. Naidu said they would revolutionise healthcare, vigor systems, agriculture, finance, materials subject and upwind forecasting. By integrating quantum computing with artificial intelligence, satellites and drone technologies, helium said, Andhra Pradesh would look arsenic a cardinal operator of India’s future-ready, technology-led system and a torchbearer of Viksit Bharat 2047.

The programme was attended by Prof. Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, Prof. Satyanarayana, Director, IIT Tirupati,  Dr. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India  and experts from assorted institutions.