Telangana & Neysa Sigs Rs 105 Billion MoU for AI Data Centre Cluster

21 Apr 2025 CW Team

In a major step toward becoming India’s AI capital, the Telangana government has signed an MoU with Japanese IT giant NTT DATA and cloud platform company Neysa Networks to establish a 400 MW Artificial Intelligence data centre cluster in Hyderabad, with an investment of Rs 105 billion.

The agreement was finalised in the presence of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy during a high-level meeting in Japan. The upcoming facility will be equipped with 25,000 GPUs, making it home to India’s most powerful AI supercomputing infrastructure.

The project is designed to deliver sovereign, scalable, and sustainable AI compute capabilities for both public and enterprise workloads. It will combine NTT DATA’s global leadership in data centres with Neysa’s AI acceleration platform to jointly develop advanced AI-first solutions.

This initiative is aligned with Telangana’s ambition to position itself as a leading AI hub, strengthening the state’s digital infrastructure and driving innovation in artificial intelligence.

(newsonair)

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