New Delhi, April 28 -- Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is set to invest Rs 1.6 lakh crore in setting up a 1.5-gigawatt data centre cluster and a captive solar battery storage system in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
This will be India's largest data centre cluster, eclipsing Google's 1-GW project being set up in the same region with an investment of $15 billion.
Reliance plans to establish a giga-scale artificial intelligence data centre cluster in three phases, and has sought 935 acres of land for the cluster, including 300 acres for the first phase and 635 acres for the second phase. It has also requested 1 acre for a cable landing station and 80 acres for a desalination plant, reports said.
In the first phase, a 500-MW data centre is pr...