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Naidu Meets Modi in Delhi Ahead of Google MoU for Vizag 1‑GW Data Centre

The outreach advances a proposed $10 billion Google campus that Andhra Pradesh promotes as the keystone of an 'AI City Vizag' plan.

Overview

  • Chandrababu Naidu met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday in New Delhi and invited him to the Kurnool ‘Super GST – Super Savings’ programme and the CII Partnership Summit in Visakhapatnam on November 14–15.
  • The MoU between Andhra Pradesh’s IT department and Google is scheduled for October 14 at Hotel Taj Mansingh in New Delhi, with a 10 a.m.–12 p.m. window announced by party officials.
  • Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Ashwini Vaishnaw are expected to attend alongside senior Google Cloud leaders Thomas Kurian, Bikash Koley and Karan Bajwa, according to published schedules.
  • The project is described by the state and media reports as a nearly $10 billion, Asia’s first 1‑gigawatt hyperscale data‑centre campus in Visakhapatnam, with resilient subsea and terrestrial links to Google’s global network.
  • State estimates project average contributions of ₹10,518 crore annually to GSDP from 2028–2032 and about 1.88 lakh jobs each year, with SIPB approval and plans for single‑window clearances, renewable power integration and plug‑and‑play infrastructure.