Pranav Hotkar
Visakhapatnam, India - February 18, 2026 - The Andhra Pradesh government has cleared about 601.4 acres of land for an artificial-intelligence data-center campus to be developed by Adani Infra (India) Limited, in a project connected to infrastructure requirements of a Google-affiliated entity.
The land parcels, located across Tarluvada, Adavivaram–Mudasarlova, and Rambilli in the Visakhapatnam and Anakapalli districts, expand an earlier allocation and will support hyperscale computing facilities intended for large AI workloads.
Authorities said the project will be executed through special-purpose development entities, with Adani acting as the infrastructure developer while a subsidiary of Google, Raiden Infotech India, is associated with the planned deployment of computing capacity. The structure reflects a colocation model in which a hyperscale tenant uses independently developed infrastructure rather than directly owning the campus.
The investment is estimated at roughly INR 90,000 crore (~USD 10 billion), placing it among the largest planned digital infrastructure projects in the state. Officials expect the campus to host high-density compute clusters supporting training and inference workloads used in cloud services and enterprise AI applications.
State authorities approved revised land allocations and facilitation measures to accelerate construction timelines, positioning the Visakhapatnam region as a developing data center corridor along India’s east coast.
Industry observers note that hyperscale AI facilities require significantly more electricity and cooling capacity than traditional cloud sites, often driving campus-scale developments rather than incremental expansion. Projects increasingly involve partnerships where infrastructure firms build and operate facilities while technology companies deploy computing hardware as anchor tenants.
The development forms part of broader efforts across India to expand domestic compute capacity as demand for generative AI services rises. By hosting workloads locally, operators aim to reduce latency, support data sovereignty requirements, and lower cross-border network dependence.
If completed as planned, the campus could anchor a larger technology cluster in Andhra Pradesh, attracting additional cloud and digital-services investments to the region and reinforcing India’s strategy to expand locally hosted AI infrastructure.
