Land earmarked for ambitious Lucknow AI City project

With the aim to become a global AI hub with tech parks, research labs, and job opportunities by 2025, Lucknow's AI City project begins land allocation. This comes almost a year after the state government made budgetary provisions for the ambitious project, a step seen to bring the state capital on par with IT hubs of the country. The AI City project is said to be completed in two phases as part of a public private partnership (PPP) model.

Principal secretary, planning, Alok Kumar said, “A chunk of land has been identified near the Defence Expo site for the purpose in which Lucknow AI City will be developed as a dedicated and self-reliant technology hub. About 60% of the total area will be developed as a core zone, housing AI innovation centres, technology parks, and advanced research facilities. The remaining 40% area will be developed with residential, commercial, and social infrastructure.”

In December last year, chief minister Yogi Adityanath met Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran and later proposed the development of an ‘AI City’ in Lucknow, aimed at positioning UP as a global hub for artificial intelligence, an official statement read.

In July 2025, the plan to develop Lucknow as India’s first AI City received a corpus of ₹10,732 crores as part of a major push to develop Uttar Pradesh as the new IT destination. It will feature state-of-the-art data centres, high-performance computing infrastructure, AI research labs, start-up incubation centres, and modern workspaces for global technology companies.

The project is expected to strengthen the start-up ecosystem and generate thousands of employment opportunities based on future technologies. The objective is to provide world-class facilities to Indian and international AI companies at a single location, enabling them to develop and scale their projects at a faster pace. The project is being advanced with the goal of positioning Lucknow among the top 20 global AI hubs.