Tamil Nadu has taken a step towards its own AI-ready data centre: ELCOT signed an MoU with IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation to act as the Project Monitoring Unit, review the State Data Centre and make government applications AI-ready.
Tamil Nadu has taken a step towards its own AI-ready data centre: ELCOT signed an MoU with IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation to act as the Project Monitoring Unit, review the State Data Centre and make government applications AI-ready.
The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) and IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation of IIT Madras signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the Secretariat in Chennai on 5 November 2026 to build an Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centre for the Tamil Nadu government.
The signing was presided over by R. Kumar, Minister for Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Digital Services, with Additional Chief Secretary Dr. Atul Anand, ELCOT Managing Director P. Vishnuchandran and IITM Pravartak CEO M.J. Sankarraman.
The location, capacity and cost of the data centre have not yet been announced.