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The Cloud and the Cultivator — Andhra Pradesh's Agrivoltaics Model

A $15 billion AI data centre at Visakhapatnam needs 24 GWh of electricity a day. Take it from the grid and it competes with farmers on subsidised power; take it from coal and clean digital infrastructure stops meaning anything. The third path is agrivoltaics — panels above, crops below, and the farmer not selling land but holding equity in the energy enterprise itself. Andhra's Deemed Distribution Licence is what makes it implementable, because it creates a buyer. A case study in moving from acquisition to partnership, with four model answers.