Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh showcased investment opportunities available in the state to Blackstone and Brookfield Asset Management, two top global institutions managing up to USD 2 trillion in assets, during the 2026 WEF at Davos, Switzerland.<\/p>\n
The IT minister met Stephen A Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive, Blackstone and Connor Tesky, president, Brookfield Asset Management separately, an official release said on Friday.<\/p>\n
“Lokesh held high-level back-to-back meetings at the World Economic Forum 2026 with (the) leadership of the world’s two largest alternative asset managers — Blackstone and Brookfield Asset Management,” it said.<\/p>\n
The two global institutions manage close to USD 2 trillion in assets, spanning infrastructure, real estate, clean energy, digital platforms, logistics, and transition investing, it added.<\/p>\n
During the discussions with Blackstone, Lokesh outlined opportunities for ‘Grade-A’ commercial office spaces, integrated mixed-use urban development, port-linked industrial and logistics parks, renewable energy and hyperscale data centres across Visakhapatnam, Amaravati and Rayalaseema.<\/p>\n
He also mentioned the Chennai Bengaluru Industrial Corridor (CBIC) and Vizag Chennai Industrial Corridors (VCIC).<\/p>\n
“The conversation focused on leveraging Andhra Pradesh’s fast-growing urban centres, port-led industrialisation strategy, and execution-oriented policy framework to enable large, institution-grade real asset investments,” the release said.<\/p>\n
In a separate meeting with Brookfield Asset Management, Lokesh reviewed progress from earlier engagements in London and discussed the next steps to accelerate the Andhra Pradesh-Brookfield partnership.<\/p>\n
Key focus areas included fast-tracking Brookfield’s clean-energy-powered gigawatt-scale data centre plans in Visakhapatnam, alongside energy storage, solar manufacturing, and green hydrogen pilot projects near the state’s port-led industrial clusters.<\/p>\n
The discussions also covered the ongoing large-scale renewable energy deployments in Andhra Pradesh under Evren, the Brookfield-Axis Energy platform, which is executing utility-scale solar and hybrid renewable projects in the state, the release said.<\/p>\n
These investments support Andhra Pradesh’s vision of delivering round-the-clock green power to energy-intensive industries, digital infrastructure, and future hydrogen value chains, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh showcased investment opportunities available in the state to Blackstone and Brookfield Asset…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[1396,22215,79,140613,179,18,19,17,148866],"class_list":{"0":"post-301814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-blackstone","9":"tag-brookfield","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-davos","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-lokesh-woos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115951770570954739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}