Hyderabad, Jan. 21 -- Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday appealed to the software giant Google to expedite its proposed Artificial Intelligence Data Centre at Visakhapatnam.

The chief minister held a meeting with Google Cloud chief executive officer Thomas Kurien on the second day of the World Economic Forum summit at Davos in Switzerland.

Google is establishing India's first gigawatt-scale AI Data Centre and AI Hub in Visakhapatnam (Vizag), Andhra Pradesh, as part of a major $15 billion investment, partnering with AdaniConneX and Airtel. The MoU was signed in October and the state government in December allotted 480 acres of land for the project.

"We discussed fast-tracking the project for timely completion, ...