Business EconomyPosted at: May 6 2026 11:17AM


AP: Carrier global lays foundation for Rs 1,000 cr chiller manufacturing facility at sri city

Sri City (Tirupati District, Andhra Pradesh), May 6 (UNI) Carrier Global performed the groundbreaking for its advanced chiller manufacturing facility at Sri City on Wednesday.
Andhra Pradesh Minister for IT Nara Lokesh laid the foundation for the proposed facility involves an investment of around ₹1,000 crore and is expected to strengthen Andhra Pradesh’s growing digital infrastructure manufacturing ecosystem.
Speaking on the occasion, Lokesh said Carrier’s entry into Andhra Pradesh would further strengthen the ecosystem by bringing advanced cooling technologies essential for next-generation data centres, AI infrastructure and high-performance computing facilities.
He said the state government was focusing on creating a complete value chain for digital infrastructure, including cooling and thermal management systems, power and energy management solutions, precision engineering components, electronics and control systems.
The Minister said the Carrier facility marked a defining moment in the state’s efforts to build a full-stack data infrastructure ecosystem covering energy, data centres and component manufacturing.
Lokesh said industrial ecosystems such as Sri City, coupled with supportive government policies and rapid industrial expansion, were helping Andhra Pradesh emerge as a global hub for next-generation manufacturing and digital infrastructure.
He expressed confidence that the Carrier project would attract further investments, deepen global partnerships and accelerate Andhra Pradesh’s emergence as India’s data centre capital and a key manufacturing backbone for the digital economy.
Stating that the investment reflected Andhra Pradesh’s strategic shift from merely hosting data centres to manufacturing the critical components powering the digital economy, Lokesh said the state was positioning itself strongly in the global digital infrastructure value chain.
Sri City has emerged as a major HVAC and electronics manufacturing hub with investments worth ₹12,000 crore in cooling and air-conditioner manufacturing, generating around 25,000 direct jobs.
The supplier ecosystem in the region has attracted investments worth ₹4,600 crore and is projected to contribute nearly 60 per cent of India’s AC production by 2027.
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