Amaravati, May 7 -- The Andhra Pradesh government has cleared a power distribution licence for the upcoming Google data centre project in Visakhapatnam under a newly introduced policy framework for strategic data centres.
The state government issued an order introducing a policy framework to provide deemed distribution licences (DDL) to strategic data centres, recognising their specialised requirements in power procurement, development, and maintenance of distribution infrastructure.
According to the order issued by the Energy Department, the move was aimed at facilitating data centre projects possessing the required expertise to independently manage electricity distribution for their operations, reported The Hindu.
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