Andhra Pradesh grants discom licence to Google for Vizag data centre hub
The Andhra Pradesh cabinet has approved a power distribution licence for Google’s $15-billion data centre hub in Visakhapatnam, making it the first private company in the state to receive such approval. Google has secured the distribution company (discom) licence ahead of the project’s scheduled groundbreaking on April 28, 2026. The licence allows the company to procure and distribute electricity directly for its 1 GW data centre campus, bypassing the conventional utility supply chain. The approval…