AirTrunk Plans $11 Billion Data Centre Investment in Andhra Pradesh

On November 14, 2026, Blackstone-backed AirTrunk filed detailed plans for two hyperscale data centre campuses in Andhra Pradesh, southern India.

Proposed Andhra Pradesh campuses

The project could involve investment of about $11 billion (Rs 1.03 lakh crore) and provide combined capacity of up to 1.8 gigawatts. State authorities were considering the proposal as of November 14. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said the state government was expanding renewable energy capacity and strengthening water supplies to support the data centre buildout.

AirTrunk’s wider India investment plan

On June 5, 2026, AirTrunk announced plans to invest more than 30 billion (Rs 3 lakh crore) in India by 2030, building over 5 gigawatts of digital infrastructure capacity across multiple states and union territories. AirTrunk entered India about six weeks earlier by acquiring Lumina CloudInfra. Blackstone had committed about 11 billion to Indian data centres through Lumina before the acquisition; the planned $30 billion would nearly triple that exposure.

Important Facts for Exams

• Japan campus configuration: AirTrunk has four Japanese hyperscale campuses—two in the Tokyo area and two in Osaka—with about 530 MW of capacity expected at full build-out.
• Lumina development pipeline: AirTrunk’s acquisition of Lumina CloudInfra added a developer with 600 MW of planned capacity and up to US$5 billion in development potential.
• Hyperscale capacity threshold: Hyperscale data centres typically exceed 100 megawatts of power capacity and are designed for large-scale cloud, AI and data-processing workloads.