With his state having clinched some high-profile investment deals of late, Andhra Pradesh’s IT and HRD Minister N Lokesh Naidu is not shying from taking jibes at neighbours. On Tuesday, the state government announced that Google will invest $15 billion over five years to set up an artificial intelligence (AI) data centre at Visakhapatnam – its biggest investment yet in the country.

In response, Karnataka IT Minister and Congress leader Priyank Kharge said that the incentive package offered to Google by Andhra Pradesh was an economic disaster.

Andhra Pradesh has been trying to attract IT companies to the state after losing Hyderabad to Telangana, while Bengaluru continues to grow as the country’s IT capital. On Wednesday, Raymond Group announced that it would invest close to Rs 1,00

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