Lucknow, Dec. 24 -- The chairman and managing director of Sify Technologies, Raju Vegesna, met chief minister Yogi Adityanath at his official residence on Tuesday to hold detailed discussions on AI-led digital transformation and the proposed development of 'AI cities' in Lucknow and Noida. During the meeting, the chief minister said that artificial intelligence is set to bring transformative change across governance, industry, healthcare, education and manufacturing in the coming years. He underlined that the Uttar Pradesh government is actively encouraging AI-based investments and innovation by building robust digital infrastructure and creating an enabling policy environment. Briefing the chief minister, Raju Vegesna said that Sify had invested over Rs.12,000 crore in the last five years in Uttar Pradesh, primarily for setting up state-of-the-art data centres in Lucknow and Noida. He added that the company plans to double this investment over the next three years. He shared that Sify's AI Edge Data Centre in Lucknow is nearing completion, and plans are underway to develop a large hyperscale AI campus in its vicinity. In Noida, Sify is operating north India's largest AI data centre campus, 'Noida-02', with another AI campus proposed alongside it. The company's first green hyperscale data centre, 'Noida-01', is already serving over 100 enterprise, government and hyperscale clients. It was also highlighted that the AI clusters in Lucknow and Noida will be seamlessly connected through Sify's national fibre network, enabling high-speed, low-latency AI workloads. Vegesna further noted that global technology leaders such as Google, Meta and Oracle are strategic partners in Sify's data centre business, strengthening Uttar Pradesh's global technology footprint....