[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-googles-andhra-pradesh-ai-hub-cleared-for-251gw-not-1gw":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},7986,"googles-andhra-pradesh-ai-hub-cleared-for-251gw-not-1gw","Google's Andhra Pradesh AI Hub Cleared for 2.51GW, Not 1GW","Clearance papers seen by the Guardian show Google's Andhra Pradesh AI data center can draw more than twice its publicly stated power capacity.","Google's flagship India data center is cleared to draw more than double the power it has publicly claimed.\n\nClearance documents reviewed by the Guardian show Google's $15bn AI data center project in Andhra Pradesh has state environmental approval for 2.51 gigawatts of capacity. That is more than double the 1 gigawatt figure Google has publicized for the site. The Guardian's Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan reported the discrepancy from Tarluvada, one of the villages where the facility is being built. The clearance papers, not any company statement, are the source for the higher figure.\n\nA permit is not a promise, and companies routinely secure headroom they never end up using. But a 2.5x gap between what regulators approved and what the public was told sets a low bar for transparency around one of the largest resource-intensive builds India has seen, in a region where power and land decisions directly affect the villages next to the site. It also fits a broader pattern in the AI buildout: capacity numbers move faster than chip orders, and public disclosures often lag the paperwork that locks in future load.\n\nReporters went to the village to find this out, not the press office, which says something about where the real accountability currently sits.","[\"google\",\"data-centers\",\"india\",\"ai-infrastructure\"]","2026-09-26T16:59:00.000Z","2026-09-26T17:14:23.175Z","2026-09-26T17:14:28.544Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The claim that 'Google has not explained the gap between the permitted capacity and the number it has publicized' asserts Google's silence\u002Fnon-response as fact, but the truncated source material provided doesn't confirm whether Google was asked for comment or declined to respond — verify this against the full Guardian report and either cite it explicitly or cut the claim, and likewise attribute or drop the unsourced 'mid-size city' power comparison.","resolved","ai",[32,33,34,35],"google","data-centers","india","ai-infrastructure",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Fgoogle-india-ai-datacentre-andhra-pradesh-land",0,{"sections":42},[43,46,51,56,61,66,70,75,80,85,90,95,99,104],{"name":44,"slug":30,"count":45,"latest_published_at":18},"AI",4631,{"name":47,"slug":48,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"Security","security",750,"2026-09-26T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"Policy","policy",395,"2026-09-26T16:41:00.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Deals","deals",260,"2026-09-26T09:00:00.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Hardware","hardware",185,"2026-09-25T15:00:22.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":60},"Science","science",144,{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",135,"2026-09-26T14:30:00.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":79},"Software","software",90,"2026-09-25T20:55:00.000Z",{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",84,"2026-09-26T04:20:58.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":88,"latest_published_at":89},"Startups","startups",76,"2026-09-25T18:33:59.000Z",{"name":91,"slug":92,"count":93,"latest_published_at":94},"Gaming","gaming",48,"2026-09-25T18:35:21.000Z",{"name":96,"slug":97,"count":93,"latest_published_at":98},"General","general","2026-09-26T17:02:42.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"Reviews","reviews",30,"2026-09-24T20:07:31.000Z",{"name":105,"slug":106,"count":107,"latest_published_at":108},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]