Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Discusses Strengthening Digital Infrastructure with Bharti Enterprises Founder

en.Wedoany.com Reported - Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu met with Bharti Enterprises Founder and Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal to discuss strengthening the state's digital infrastructure and enhancing network connectivity.

Sunil Bharti Mittal visited the Chief Minister at his official residence. Naidu posted on platform X that discussions covered expanding last-mile internet and mobile tower coverage, promoting investments in data centers and submarine cable landing stations, and improving the business environment for mobile service operators in the state. Specific details of the meeting have not yet been made public, and the state government is expected to release an official press release later.

Airtel Nxtra, the data center subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, is one of the partners for Google's AI data center in Visakhapatnam. The project, with an investment of approximately $15 billion, will build a gigawatt-scale data center powered by clean energy and supported by a robust submarine network, with a total capacity of 1 GW spread over nearly 600 acres. The foundation stone for the data center was laid on April 28, with Chief Minister Naidu and Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw in attendance. Naidu urged Google and its project partners AdaniConneX and Airtel Nxtra to complete and operationalize the facility by September 2028. The Chief Minister stated that the government would leverage the AI data center to enhance its promised "speed of governance."

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