AirTrunk is putting 1,800 MW on the map in Andhra Pradesh. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu for two proposed data center campuses in Anakapalli district, marking its next phase of Indian expansion.
The proposed sites are a 400 MW campus at Rambilli and a 1,400 MW campus at Tootipala. Those figures add up to 1,800 MW — a capacity large enough to make “new campus” sound like an undersell.
AirTrunk announced the agreement on November 13, 2026, through an official LinkedIn announcement. Both campuses remain proposals, and the company plans to work with government and community partners as the developments progress.
Jobs tied to local skills
AirTrunk projects that the two developments could create more than 3,100 direct operational jobs and 4,700 indirect jobs. Those are projections attached to the proposed projects, not existing positions, so the employment figures depend on the campuses moving forward.
The company intends to support local access to those opportunities through local hiring, skills development, and partnerships with Industrial Training Institutes and polytechnics in Anakapalli. That approach connects the campuses’ potential economic impact with a practical requirement of large data center operations: a trained local workforce.
Carly Wishart, AirTrunk’s Managing Director, Corporate and International, thanked the Andhra Pradesh government for its partnership. “Our focus is on responsible planning and helping people build the skills to take part in the opportunities ahead,” she said.
Expansion beyond Mumbai, Chennai, and Hyderabad
The MoU follows AirTrunk’s acquisition of Lumina CloudInfra, announced on April 20, 2026. That deal brought AirTrunk into the Indian market with an approximately 600 MW portfolio of planned capacity across Mumbai, Chennai, and Hyderabad, along with existing contracts, relationships, and operating capabilities.
Blackstone and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board were to continue providing long-term capital support to the platform. AirTrunk’s current India portfolio describes its data centers as cloud and AI-ready and lists developments in Mumbai, Chennai, and Hyderabad.
The Anakapalli proposal would add Rambilli and Tootipala beyond those markets, extending a pipeline designed to serve the growth of large technology customers. The company has tied that pipeline to demand for cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure — the two favorite reasons for building enormous facilities, and in this case, the stated ones.
AirTrunk also outlined a wider Indian investment program on June 5, 2026. The proposal called for more than US$30 billion of investment by 2030 and 5 GW of new data center capacity across multiple states and union territories, linked to growing demand for cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
That June proposal followed meetings by AirTrunk founder and CEO Robin Khuda with federal representatives and ministers in Maharashtra. The Anakapalli MoU now supplies two named sites and specific capacities within the company’s broader Indian plans, while its local hiring and training commitments attach a workforce strategy to the infrastructure buildout.
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- Anakapalli MoU Maps 400 MW And 1,400 MW AirTrunk Campus Proposals — unite.ai
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