Andhra Pradesh’s ambitious plan to launch India’s largest quantum computer in Amaravati by 2027 signals a major push towards establishing a global quantum hardware centre, integrating academia, industry, and government initiatives.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has said quantum computing operations in Amaravati are due to begin on 3 February 2027, with IBM, Tata Consultancy Services and L&T involved in the project, according to The Hindu. He framed the plan as a shift from importing advanced technology to building and exporting quantum hardware in the state, a claim that underlines the scale of the administration’s ambitions for the proposed Quantum Valley in the capital region.
The announcement came at the Pan-IIT Andhra Pradesh Summit, where Mr Naidu also said a Pan-IIT World Council would be established in Amaravati to support curriculum reform, start-up creation and mentorship. He described it as a global academic network and said the state would create a ₹500 crore venture fund to back deep-tech start-ups, signalling a wider effort to tie higher education, industry and capital into one technology policy framework.
The quantum push is not starting from zero. IBM has said construction has already begun on the Quantum Valley Tech Park in Amaravati, which it says will house India’s first IBM quantum computer in the city. Tata Consultancy Services has separately said the installation will centre on an IBM Quantum System Two with a 156-qubit Heron processor, which would make it the largest quantum computer in India. IBM and TCS also say the platform will be used to develop quantum algorithms and applications for industry and academia, while allowing access to IBM quantum systems through the cloud during the build-out phase.
The earlier timelines reported by Indian business and technology outlets suggest the project is moving through staged milestones. IBEF said IBM had targeted commissioning one of the country’s first quantum computers in Amaravati by September 2026, while IBM’s own education push in India has included a free online quantum computing course that it said had drawn more than 168,000 enrolments in 2026. Those efforts point to the government’s broader workforce strategy, which Mr Naidu linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s target of training 10 million AI professionals nationwide and Andhra Pradesh’s own goal of supplying 5 million of them.
Mr Naidu also said the state was advancing a Sovereign AI Stack and pointed to what he described as an 18% rise in GST revenue from adoption of AI as evidence of the technology’s fiscal impact. He said students should be encouraged to develop entrepreneurial skills from school level, with the Pan-IIT Council helping to extend that effort. Other announcements at the summit included a Global IIT Mentor Network, an IIT technology transfer pipeline and a deep-tech policy package, all intended to turn Amaravati into a broader knowledge and innovation hub rather than a single-purpose technology site.
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