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Hyatt Regency Gurgaon signs on Focus for its creative duties
MUMBAI: Integrated brand communication Focus has bagged the creative duties for Hyatt Regency, Gurgaon.
The account includes the launch of the property in terms of marketing, communication strategy and design for the various revenue streams of the hotel.
Focus Circle (the creative and advertising arm of Focus) national creative director Rahool Talukdar said, “Having worked with several brands from the Hospitality sector, we understand that a hotel doesn‘t essentially only need advertising. Hyatt Group globally reflects excellent standards of service and luxury for their guests hence the internal and external communication & marketing strategy need to be consistent in terms of message and approach. Hospitality or luxury are a ‘state-of-mind‘, it‘s a feeling that one needs to inculcate within to service the brand.”
Due to presence in different regions and properties targeted at different target market segments, The Hyatt Group demanded different communication approach for each property. For example, Hyatt Regency focuses its communication to the business traveller, Park Hyatt has a focus on leisure and holiday, and the Grand Hyatt caters to the luxury. The agency brief involves creating a launch strategy and approach for each specific location in the past. Usually, a launch involves rigorous strategizing in terms of feeder and local markets.
Each of these brands has internationally acclaimed brand standards that also need to be ensured. Focus went through an intense exercise to adapt and enhance these standards to not only fit the Indian Market, but to live up to the Hyatt way of marketing and communication as per their global standards.
Focus began its association with the hotel chain in 2003 with the launch of Park Hyatt Goa. Since then, the agency has served its brands ranging from Grand Hyatt, Hyatt Regency and Park Hyatt across cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Pune, as well as internationally for their properties in Maldives and Abu Dhabi. Collectively, Focus has been associated with the Hyatt brand for over nine years now.
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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.
