Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu had a breakthrough in their meeting with senior executives from Amazon Web Services (AWS) at the World Economic Forum, 2025, when the tech behemoth agreed to invest Rs 60,000 crore in data centres in Telangana.
The AWS side was represented by Michael Punke, Vice President, Global Public Policy..
The leaders discussed the Telangana government’s supportive role in creating a welcoming environment for establishing data centre infrastructure in the state and the state’s strategic importance for AWS’s operations in India. Telangana is an integral component of AWS’s strategy in India.
AWS will be expanding its data centres in Hyderabad in a big way, with plans for a fresh investment of around Rs 60,000 crore. With this AWS Region in Hyderabad will play an increasingly important role in supporting AWS’s growth of cloud services in India, including AI in the future.
AWS had earlier announced that it would invest USD 4.4 billion by 2030 to develop its cloud infrastructure in Telangana. AWS has so far developed three sites in the state with an investment of around US $1 billion. These three centres are already operational.
AWS has requested the government to facilitate the allocation of additional land for their expansion plans, to which the government agreed. Amazon, with its expansion plans, is committed to supporting the digital ambitions of Telangana.
Hailing the major investment decision, Chief Minister Revanth Reddy said, “we are delighted with the growth of confidence of global businesses like Amazon to making huge investments as never before in our state now. The efforts of the last one year have truly borne fruit. This is TelanganaRising vision at work.”D. Sridhar Babu, IT & Industries Minister, said that with this deal, Hyderabad is set to be recognised as a Data Centres hub of India and an undisputed leader in the space. (INN)