Overview

• Chandrababu Naidu met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and invited him to the Super GST–Super Savings event in Kurnool on October 16 and the CII Partnership Summit in Visakhapatnam on November 14–15.
• The Andhra Pradesh IT Department and Google are slated to sign an MoU in New Delhi on October 14 for a proposed hyperscale data centre in Visakhapatnam, with Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Ashwini Vaishnaw expected to attend.
• Official statements describe the project as a 1 gigawatt campus tied to the 'AI City Vizag' initiative and positioned as Google's first data centre in Asia, with direct links to the company’s global network.
• State estimates project an average annual contribution of about ₹10,518 crore to GSDP during 2028–2032, support for roughly 1.88 lakh jobs each year, and productivity spillovers of ₹47,720 crore over five years.
• Naidu publicly congratulated Modi on 25 years as head of government and lauded Next Gen GST reforms, then met TDP MPs in Delhi to discuss party matters including the spurious liquor case.