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Andhra Pradesh has cleared a ₹31,387 crore, 512 MW green AI data centre near Visakhapatnam, and set aside land for a Reliance gigascale AI facility at Bhogapuram. Both decisions came at Tuesday's Cabinet meeting, The Hindu reported.
They arrive as a Crisil report, covered by Peepals Business, projects India's data centre capacity growing about fivefold to 7.5 GW by March 2030, with over ₹3 lakh crore of investment. About three quarters of the roughly 6 GW pipeline is planned for Visakhapatnam, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Nearly half is already tied to long contracts. The same report names timely power connections and grid upgrades as the main risk.
The Chennai announcements show why. Vultr said it has launched a 20 MW cluster with about 10,000 AMD GPUs, and that Tamil Nadu has made 150 MW of connected power available at the site, of which 20 MW is in use at the start, The Hindu reported on 2 November. L&T's Vyoma.AI began building a 52 MW facility on a campus with 150 MVA of power readiness, using direct to chip liquid cooling, Construction World reported.
What the companies leave out is also visible. Vultr did not disclose its cooling technology, projected water use or energy efficiency figures. Vyoma.AI gave no investment or completion date for the new building.
For states, the contest appears to be about who can deliver electricity and land fastest. For residents near the sites, the questions of water and power use are still open. The Vizag figures are a cabinet approval, not a built plant.
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