Overview
- Carrier Global, which held the ceremony Wednesday, saw IT Minister Nara Lokesh lay the foundation stone for its new manufacturing facility in Sri City.
- The 39-acre plant will make high-end chillers for data centres, AI gear and high-performance computing, with operations targeted by late 2027, officials said.
- The project is expected to create about 3,000 direct and indirect jobs and to use five nearby ports to boost exports, according to state statements.
- Sri City already hosts a major HVAC manufacturing cluster with about Rs 12,000 crore invested and around 25,000 direct jobs, plus suppliers near Rs 4,600 crore, with output projected to reach about 60% of India’s AC production by 2027.
- State officials link the factory to a wider data-infrastructure push worth over Rs 6 lakh crore and a 6 GW target, citing Google’s planned 1 GW hub in Visakhapatnam and a proposed Reliance cluster.