Naidu invites Modi for ‘Super GST – Super Savings’ event in Kurnool and CII Partnership Summit in Vizag

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Sunday and conveyed his heartfelt congratulations to the Prime Minister on his remarkable 25 years in public service as Head of Government.

During the meeting, Naidu praised the Prime Minister’s visionary leadership in driving the ‘Next Generation GST reforms’ and described them as ‘transformative and people-centric’.

Mr. Naidu announced that the upcoming ‘Super GST – Super Savings’ event in Kurnool will celebrate the public’s enthusiasm towards the initiative. On this occasion, he invited the Prime Minister.

Mr. Naidu also invited Mr. Modi to chair the CII Partnership Summit 2025, scheduled to be held in Visakhapatnam on November 14 and 15. The summit aims to showcase Andhra Pradesh’s growing industrial potential and its commitment to becoming a major investment destination in India’s economic landscape.

Mr. Naidu said the Prime Minister’s participation in the event will inspire investors and stakeholders to strengthen India’s economic revival.

On October 14, Mr. Naidu is scheduled to attend the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Government of Andhra Pradesh and Google at Hotel Taj Mansingh in New Delhi.

The deal involves setting up Asia’s first 1 gigawatt hyperscale data center campus in Visakhapatnam, representing an investment of approximately US$10 billion (₹84,000 crore).

The project will serve as the cornerstone of the ambitious ‘AI City Vizag’ initiative, combining state-of-the-art AI infrastructure, data capacity, renewable energy integration and global fiber optic connectivity.

The facility will be directly connected to Google’s global network through resilient subsea and land systems, positioning Visakhapatnam as a key node in India’s digital future.

The event will be attended by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, along with top global executives from Google, including Thomas Kurian (CEO, Google Cloud), Bikash Koley (vice president, Global Infrastructure) and Karan Bajwa (head of Google Cloud, Asia Pacific).

Speaking ahead of the event, IT Minister Nara Lokesh described the project as ‘a transformative step for the future of Andhra Pradesh and a defining moment in India’s AI-driven growth’.

As per estimates, the proposed data center project in Visakhapatnam is expected to contribute an annual average of ₹ 10,518 crore to the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) of Andhra Pradesh between 2028 and 2032 and support around 1.88 lakh direct and indirect jobs every year. The initiative is expected to create productivity deployments worth ₹47,720 crore in five years, driven by the Google Cloud ecosystem.

The project has been approved by the State Investment Promotion Board (SIPB) and will be facilitated through single-window permits, renewable energy integration and plug-and-play infrastructure managed by the Economic Development Board and the ITE&C Department.