Guatam Adani: Andhra Pradesh has approved the transfer of 480 acres of land in Visakhapatnam and Anakapalle districts to Adani Infra (India) Private Limited. Adani Infra is a partner of Google’s company Raiden Infotech India. Together, both are running a project to build a big data center here.

The ministers of the state government have approved this after the proposal of Raiden Infotech India, the official order of which was issued on 2 December. With the availability of land, the digital infrastructure here will be strengthened in the coming time and technology investment will also get a boost.

87500 crore spent in building data center

The order issued on December 2 said, after carefully examining the proposal, the government and the Council of Ministers approved it in the meeting held on 28/11/2025. According to this, approval is given to transfer 480 acres of land in Visakhapatnam and Anakapalle districts to M/s Adani Infra India) Private Limited.

Raiden Infotech India is investing more than Rs 87,500 crore in the development of data centers across Andhra Pradesh in the first phase. In return, the company will get incentives worth Rs 22,000 crore from the state over time as part of the government’s efforts to promote digital projects.

What did Raiden demand?

According to the government order, Raiden has requested that its notified partners, including Adani Infra, be authorized to avail the incentives earlier promised by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s government for the data center project. Google’s company Raiden Infotech will build a 1 GW AI data center as the main part of this project. The company has identified several ‘Notified Partners’, which include Adani Infra, AdaniConnex India, Adani Power India, Bharti Airtel, Nextra Data and Nextra Vizag (subsidiary of Bharti Airtel).

Raiden has specifically requested that all three parcels of land identified by Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Limited (APIIC) be allotted to Adani Infra as the primary notified partner after completing the survey and handing over possession.

The government order states that the data center will be built on the same standards as those supporting Google’s core services, such as Search, YouTube and Workspace. The planned facility’s 1 GW power consumption is equivalent to Mumbai’s annual power usage.

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Google to invest in visakhapatnam: India is fast moving towards the digital world, and now a historic step has been taken in this direction. It has been announced by Google that it will set up its largest data center after America in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, India. This initiative can prove to be a major “turning point” towards India’s digitalization.

Google’s investment of $ 10 billion

According to the official release issued by the Andhra Pradesh government, Google will invest about US $ 10 billion (about Rs 88,730 crore) for the construction of a gigawat capacity data center. This investment will take data security, cloud services and AI infrastructure to a new height in India.

Chief Minister N. A total of 30 investment proposals of Rs 1.14 lakh crore were approved in the State Investment Promotion Board (SIPB) meeting chaired by Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday. These proposals include projects related to IT, fuel, tourism, space, food processing and other areas. These investments are expected to create about 67,000 new jobs in the state.

India’s biggest foreign investment ever

According to the release, an investment proposal of Rs 87,520 crore of Raiden Infotech Data Center is being considered as the largest foreign direct investment (FDI) ever in the history of the country.

Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said- “For the last 15 months, efforts made to attract investors are now bringing color. New-scale employment generation and economic development are opening in the state.” During the meeting, the government also decided that a special officer would be appointed for every major project, who will take over the responsibility of landing the project on the ground.

Investment and employment data so far

In the 11 meetings of SIPB so far, investment proposals worth more than Rs 7 lakh crore have been approved in total. About 6.2 lakh jobs are expected to be created from these projects. This huge investment of Google will prove to be a milestone for India’s digital ecosystem. This hypersscale data center, built in Visakhapatnam, will play an important role in establishing India as a global digital infrastructure hub. This is not just a data center, but is going to prove to be the backbone of India’s digital future.

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