MAM
Tata Motors announces ‘Festival of Cars’ campaign for its customers
MUMBAI: To mark the beginning of this year’s auspicious festive season, Tata Motors today announced the launch of the Festival of Cars campaign for all its customers. Through this campaign, Tata Motors is offering benefits of up to Rs.1,50,000 on models such as Nexon, Hexa, Tiago, Tiago NRG, Tigor and the recently launched Harrier.
The offers are tailor made to suit customers of all segments and profiles. Apart from exciting cash benefits, there are offers for customers who exchange their old cars for a new Tata car. Besides, there are specific schemes for government employees and corporates. Tata Motors has also tied up with multiple banks and financial institutions to offer upto 100% On Road Finance and Low EMI finance packages for their products in this festive season.
Commenting on the announcement of yet another exciting festive offer, Mr. S.N Barman – Vice President, Sales, Marketing & Customer Support, Passenger Vehicles Business Unit, Tata Motors said, “The start of the festive season is an exciting time for us, as we get to be a part of our customers’ celebrations by providing them with various offers & benefits. Our offerings this year are bigger and better than the previous year and by far the best in the Industry. We have received a tremendous response from customers in Onam and Ganesh Chaturthi, and as the festive season spreads to the entire country, the 'Festival of Cars' campaign should help to bring the much-needed cheer among our customers, against the backdrop of the current market conditions. We are hopeful that this year's festive offers will provide a huge boost to the buyer morale, thus cultivating for them a strong sense of association with our brand. We wish all our customers and partners greetings for the season.”
Model wise offer details:
|
Product |
Benefits up to (Rs.) (will differ from region to region) |
|
Hexa |
1,50,000 |
|
Nexon |
85,000 |
|
Tiago |
70,000 |
|
Tiago NRG |
70,000 |
|
Tigor |
1,15,000 |
|
Harrier |
50,000 |
Brands
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.
