Google’s India AI hub cleared for 2.51GW, not 1GW, the Guardian reports
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A single AI campus in Andhra Pradesh cleared for 2.51 GW—over 2.5x the initially announced 1 GW—confirms hyperscale AI is now a grid-scale power planning problem, per [The Next Web](https://thenextweb.com/news/google-india-ai-datacentre-andhra-pradesh-land). If AI is material to your roadmap, treat power, water, and local politics as first-class dependencies alongside GPU supply.
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