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Tiny Startup's Rs 10,000 Crore Pledge Steals Tamil Nadu Conclave

Tiny Startup's Rs 10,000 Crore Pledge Steals Tamil Nadu Conclave

A big meeting happened in Tamil Nadu where companies promise to invest money to build new things.

One small company, called Light House Green Data Centre, surprised everyone by promising a huge amount of money — Rs 10,000 crore.

That is a really, really big number, like ten thousand crore rupees.

But this company is very new, only about five months old, and it only has a tiny bit of its own money right now.

The company wants to build a giant building filled with computers that help artificial intelligence, called a data centre, in a city called Thoothukudi.

Some people think it is strange that such a small company can promise so much money.

The Tamil Nadu government says large projects are often started by new companies and that the company's money plan was checked.

Other states have cancelled such promises before when companies could not show they had the money.

So everyone is watching to see if this promise really happens.

The important thing is whether a promise turns into real buildings and real projects.

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