Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance
Taking a big step towards giving new heights to India’s digital infrastructure, Mukesh Ambani’s company Reliance Industries is going to make a mega investment of Rs 1.6 lakh crore in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. This investment will establish the country’s largest data center cluster, which will play an important role in meeting the rapidly growing demand for AI and digital services and will move India towards becoming a global data hub.
A big change is being seen in India’s data ecosystem, where Reliance Industries is planning to make a huge investment of Rs 1.6 lakh crore in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Under this project, a giga-scale AI data center cluster with a capacity of 1.5 gigawatt and a captive solar-battery storage system will be established.
The project will be the biggest
This project is going to be India’s largest data center cluster, which will be bigger than Google’s 1 gigawatt project running in the region. The Investment Promotion Committee of the state government has approved this project, bringing Andhra Pradesh closer to its goal of becoming a data center hub.
The project will be developed in three phases. In the first phase, a 500 MW data center will be established in Polipalli village, whose operation is expected to start by October 2028. In the second phase, additional capacity of 1 gigawatt will be developed, which can be completed by 2030. This entire cluster will be established near the new airport of Bhogapuram.
These companies are also working
The company has demanded about 935 acres of land for this project, which includes data center, cable landing station and desalination plant. The bulk of the investment, about Rs 1.08 lakh crore, will be spent on data centres, while Rs 51,300 crore will be spent on renewable energy projects. Visakhapatnam is fast becoming a hub of data center investment. Here players like Sify Technologies, Digital Connexion and Anant Raj Quad are also working on big projects.
Under the State Government’s Data Center Policy 4.0, companies are being given many incentives like GST reimbursement, capital subsidy and facility to purchase power directly. This investment will not only strengthen digital infrastructure, but will also accelerate employment generation, technology development and expansion of AI based services. Considering the rapidly increasing data consumption and demand for cloud services in India, this project can prove to be an important step towards making the country a global data and AI hub.
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