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Sridevi becomes brand ambassador for Fiona Digital RO Water Purifier
NEW DELHI: Bollywood actress Sridevi, who marked her comeback to acting with an award-winning appearance in ‘English Vinglish‘, has been appointed the brand ambassador of digital ROTM technology water purifier TulipsRed launched by Fiona Consumer Products Private Limited.
The product was launched on a grand scale event at the Hyatt Regency on 8 March by the Chaalbaaz actress in the presence of Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises K H Muniyappa.
The company designs, manufactures and domestic RO water purifiers under the Brand name Fiona.
The primary reasons behind signing the coveted actress as the face of the brand was her popularity amongst all age groups irrespective of boundaries and languages, her continuous strive to be a perfectionist who delivers quality and exceptional performances every time. The face of the contemporary Indian woman, Sridevi aptly blends style with splendour, intelligence with care and the quintessential Indian woman who knows how to balance her home and career.
Sridevi said, “Water is the important component of life and we at the entertainment world have always emphasized to add more value to life, hence there is definitely a strong connect to be associated with Fiona which is revolutionizing the quality of drinking water. I being the brand ambassador of Fiona, would encourage people to stay healthy, drink more water, pure water and use FIONA Water purifier at home.”
Fiona managing director BSVSS Prasad said, “It is evident that Fiona‘s Digital ROTM water purification technology and Sridevi charisma will surely enable the brand to position itself as the best water purifier of India.”
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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.
