Vizag’s AI Data Hub: India’s Shenzhen Moment

When Google announced a $15 billion AI data hub in Visakhapatnam, it marked more than an investment milestone—it signaled a shift in how India envisions its digital future. Vizag’s transformation from a coastal industrial town to a global tech anchor reflects a larger journey: from being the world’s back office to emerging as a sovereign player in frontier innovation.

- By Amarjeet Kumar

Calling this India’s “Shenzhen moment” is more than metaphor. It signals a decisive move from service-led growth to self-driven technological innovation. That this story unfolds in Telugu, rather than the English-dominated corridors of Indian tech, carries symbolic weight—it decentralises innovation, taking it beyond metropolitan strongholds to the broader linguistic and geographic landscape.