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CEAT Ltd celebrates Holi with the launch of the limited edition colourful Zoom RAD tyres
MUMBAI : One of the leading Indian tyre manufacturers CEAT Ltd launched a limited edition Zoom RAD tubeless tyres in three sidewall colours (Blue, Orange, Blue and Orange) on the colourful occasion of Holi. The tyres are compatible with and available for sports bikes such as Yamaha FZ, Yamaha Fazer, Suzuki Gixxer and Suzuki Intruder.
The limited-edition CEAT Zoom RAD tubeless tyres will be available in Motorcycle Radials making this category of tyres more exciting and engaging to the consumers. It is exclusively designed with wide shoulder grooves and high rubber content, providing for an outstanding cornering ability, good grip, smooth and stable trouble-free ride along with long tyre life. The colourful new tyres are exclusively available in CEAT Shoppes. Get the full list of CEAT shoppes on www.ceat.com.
Mr Amit Tolani, Chief Marketing Officer, CEAT Ltd said, “We drew inspiration from Holi – a festival of colours to launch the limited edition tyres. With our messaging ‘Express Yourself’, consumers get a chance to represent themselves with colours. Our vision is to make mobility safer and smarter with each day and CEAT’s Zoom RAD tyres are designed keeping in mind the customer preferences of excellent control, stability and a trouble-free ride.”
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Google secures AP discom licence to power $15bn Vizag AI hub
First-of-its-kind move gives tech giant grid control for massive 1GW campus
VISAKHAPATNAM: Google has secured a rare electricity distribution company licence in Andhra Pradesh, marking a decisive shift from being just a power consumer to becoming a power distributor for its upcoming mega data centre hub in Visakhapatnam.
The move effectively rewrites the rulebook for hyperscalers in India. Instead of relying on state utilities, Google will be able to procure electricity directly from generators, including its own renewable sources. This not only cuts out intermediaries but also gives the company tighter control over supply, reliability and long-term costs.
For a business where electricity can account for up to 60 per cent of operating expenses, the economics are hard to ignore. Even more critical is uptime. Data centres demand near-perfect reliability, and owning the distribution layer allows Google to manage outages and load balancing with far greater precision.
At the heart of the plan is a sprawling 1-gigawatt data centre ecosystem spread across more than 600 acres in three locations near Vizag. With an estimated investment of $15 billion over five years, the project is set to become India’s largest single foreign direct investment and Google’s biggest AI-focused facility outside the United States.
The campus is being designed with artificial intelligence workloads in mind, housing the company’s custom tensor processing units to power services such as Gemini, Search and Google Cloud. In scale, the planned capacity is comparable to powering a small city.
Google is not building alone. It has partnered with Adani Infrastructure to develop the physical campuses, while Bharti Airtel will set up an international subsea cable landing station. This connectivity backbone is expected to link the hub directly to a dozen countries, ensuring low latency for global data traffic.
Vizag’s coastal location plays a key role in that strategy. It enables direct access to subsea cables and provides the large volumes of water needed for cooling data centre operations. Equally important is policy backing from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, which fast-tracked approvals and granted the uncommon discom licence to anchor the investment.
Groundbreaking is scheduled for April 28, 2026, with phased commissioning expected to begin by July 2028.
The broader signal is clear. As AI workloads surge, hyperscalers are no longer content plugging into existing infrastructure. They are beginning to build and control it. In Vizag, Google is not just setting up a data centre, it is wiring up its own future.
