AMARAVATI: Andhra Pradesh's cabinet on Tuesday approved a slate of AI, data centre and electronics investments. The meeting, chaired by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu at the Velagapudi Secretariat, took up 34 agenda items.
Main projects (investment, jobs)
- Amanam, Bheemunipatnam mandal, Visakhapatnam: 512 MW green integrated AI data centre, ₹31,387 crore, 1,000 jobs
- Naidupeta: Carbon Cosmo unit for LFP precursor and cathode materials, ₹4,000 crore, 700 jobs
- Tirupati: Dixon Technologies unit, ₹700 crore, 2,300 jobs
- Rambilli, Anakapalli district: E-PAC Data Center Solutions equipment unit, ₹570.20 crore, 2,565 jobs
- Ravali Spinners expansion: ₹236.92 crore, 1,569 jobs
Together the five projects add up to about ₹36,894 crore and 8,134 jobs. The cabinet approved a Robotics and Physical AI Policy 2026–36 and an AVGC-XR Policy 2026–31, and amended the Semiconductor and Display Fab Policy 4.0. It cleared 173.82 acres for Hetero at Nakkapalli and land for a Reliance AI data centre at Bhogapuram, and asked the IT department to examine an Adani Group cloud hub proposal.
In energy, it raised a Greenko solar project from 500 MW to 1,500 MW and approved a 119 MW wind project at Tadipatri. It transferred 5.50 acres of APGENCO land free to the Vijayawada corporation for a 15 MW waste-to-energy plant handling 1,023 tonnes of waste a day. The cabinet also approved a feasibility study on small modular nuclear reactors, a traffic management and road safety directorate under an IG-rank officer at Mangalagiri police headquarters, and two new Sannidhi Yadava posts at TTD. It cancelled land allotments to Websol and Metro Decorative at Naidupeta.
