Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is set to invest Rs 1.6 lakh crore in setting up a 1.5-gigawatt data centre cluster and a captive solar battery storage system in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, reports said. The data centre is likely to be India’s largest data centre cluster, eclipsing Google’s 1-GW project being set up in the same region with an investment of $15 billion. The entire cluster will be established near Visakhapatnam’s new airport at Bhogapuram.
Andhra Pradesh’s Investment Promotion Committee approved the investment at a meeting, reported the Economic Times.
The giga-scale AI (artificial intelligence) data centre cluster will be established in three phases. The company has sought 935 acres for the cluster, 300 acres for the first phase and 635 for the second, 1 acre for a cable landing station and 80 acres for a desalination plant, the report said.
In the first phase, the company will set up a 500 MW data centre at Polipalli village, expected to start commercial production by October 2028, according to people privy to the proposal. In the second phase, a total 1 GW capacity will come up.
Recently, Google has also announced the first major investment of $15 billion in the region in a 1 GW cluster. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is scheduled to lay the foundation stone for the Google AI data centre in Visakhapatnam on April 28.
Recently, the Andhra Pradesh IT minister Nara Lokesh had said the state is targeting a hosting capacity of 6 GW.
The Google project is being developed as part of the state government's efforts to attract global investments through its 'Speed of Doing Business' policy, the release said. The facility will be established across nearly 600 acres in Tarluvada, Adavivaram and Rambilli areas, with other private partners, aiming to build a larger multi-gigawatt digital ecosystem in the state.
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