Greenko founders-backed AM Green to invest $25 billion for 1 GW AI data centre in Uttar Pradesh
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: AM Green Group, owned by Greenko founders Anil Kumar Chalamalasetty and Mahesh Kolli, plan to set up a 1 gigawatt data centre in Uttar Pradesh with an investment of about $25 billion, said four people aware of the developments. The company has signed an agreement with the InvestUP, the investment-focussed agency of the government of Uttar Pradesh.
An announcement to this effect will be made shortly. “AM Green will establish an AI Infrastructure hub in the Greater Noida region in Uttar Pradesh, and the project will be developed in a phased manner," said one of the four people mentioned above. The MoU was signed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the person added.
The first phase is expected to be developed by 2028, and the timeline for completion of the whole project is 2030. The facility is designed to meet the requirements of global hyperscalers, frontier labs, enterprises, and India’s sovereign AI initiatives at scale and quickly, using carbon-free energy. The data centre would leverage AM Green’s renewable energy capacity and will be powered by round-the-clock carbon-free energy solutions, including wind, solar, and pumped storage supplies from the group’s green power projects.
The first person said the project will be one of the largest investments in the space in India and may involve 500,000 latest high-performance chipsets. Kolli, president of AM Green Group and president and joint managing director of Greenko Group, declined to comment. The spokesperson of the government of Uttar Pradesh could not be reached immediately.
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