{"id":951802,"date":"2025-08-01T09:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951802"},"modified":"2025-08-01T09:33:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:03:40","slug":"google-to-set-usd-6-billion-data-centre-in-vizag-tcs-and-cognizant-operations-to-begin-soon-it-minister-lokesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/01\/google-to-set-usd-6-billion-data-centre-in-vizag-tcs-and-cognizant-operations-to-begin-soon-it-minister-lokesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to set USD 6 billion data centre in Vizag; TCS and Cognizant operations to begin soon: IT minister Lokesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: HRD, IT, and Electronics Minister Nara Lokesh announced that a major data centre in India will be established in Visakhapatnam. It is learnt that Google is preparing to develop a 1GW data centre and supporting power infrastructure, with an estimated investment of $6 billion in the Port City. <\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that operations of TCS will begin in Visakhapatnam in September, followed by Cognizant in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: HRD, IT, and Electronics Minister Nara Lokesh announced that a major data centre in India will be established in Visakhapatnam. It is learnt that Google is preparing to develop a 1GW data centre and supporting power infrastructure, with an estimated investment of $6 billion in the Port City. He also revealed that operations of TCS will begin in Visakhapatnam in September, followed by Cognizant in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}