Data Centre

According to Hitachi Energy, the Union Budget lays out a strong roadmap for technology-led growth with higher public capital expenditure and a clear push for AI data centers and advanced manufacturing

Deloitte says India could see transformative data centre growth supported by policy and renewables, but warns that power supply, grid stability and planning gaps may constrain expansion

Meanwhile, at the bourses, in the last one year, RIL stock has outperformed the market by rising nearly 17 per cent compared to the 12 per cent rise in the Nifty 50 index, data shows

Tata Group and TCS join hands with OpenAI to set up a 100 MW AI data centre in India, scale enterprise AI adoption and enable industry-specific solutions globally

The deal is a major boost for TCS, which in a strategic shift last year ‌disclosed plans to invest up to $7 billion in a 1 gigawatt data centre unit in India

L&T and NVIDIA have announced a venture to build sovereign, scalable gigawatt-scale AI factory infrastructure, supporting India's digital transformation and the IndiaAI Mission

Ashwini Vaishnaw said the government is in talks with social media firms on an age-based ban for children and deepfake controls, as AI investments near $200 billion and GPU procurement scales up

AM AI Labs said that it has received land for the first two phases of its 1 GW AI data centre in Uttar Pradesh, with 350 MW capacity planned by 2028 and full commissioning targeted by 2030

As AI adoption accelerates, India's AI Impact Summit aims to shape global rules, attract capital, and offer a Global South alternative to US- and China-led models

Soaring hardware investment masks deep platform dependence. True sovereignty requires moving beyond physical ownership to domestic control of technology

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday unveil a range of projects in Assam, including a bridge over the Brahmaputra River and a data centre for the northeastern region. Modi reached the state on a day-long visit to inaugurate an emergency landing facility (ELF) at Moran and launch projects worth over Rs 5,500 crore. The projects aim to boost connectivity, strengthen digital infrastructure, promote higher education and enhance public transport, officials said. The PM will inaugurate Kumar Bhaskar Varma Setu across the Brahmaputra in Guwahati, built at a cost of around Rs 3,030 crore. The six-lane extradosed Prestressed Concrete (PSC) bridge will connect Guwahati with North Guwahati and is the first extradosed bridge in the Northeast. It will cut travel time between Guwahati and North Guwahati to just seven minutes. Presently, only the Saraighat Bridge in Jalukbari area connects the two banks of the Brahmaputra in the capital region, with the travel time taking around 30 ...

Nvidia is set to lease a Nevada data center financed by a $3.8 billion junk-bond sale, underscoring the borrowing surge tied to AI infrastructure

Interim trade framework to ease import norms for ICT goods, support India's push to become a major AI data centre hub

Shailender Kumar, senior vice-president and regional managing director, Oracle India and NetSuite JAPAC talks about the recent Budget announcements and the India growth story

India's data centre capacity has risen sharply over the past five years, reflecting accelerating investment momentum

Domestic data centre companies are likely to benefit significantly from the Budget proposal offering a tax holiday of 20 years, as it will enable them to provide services to global clients without the risk of their foreign earnings being taxed in India, sources said. The Budget proposal, which offers a tax holiday of 20 years up to 2047 to any foreign company that procures data centre services in India, allays fears of their global income being taxed by Indian authorities. Irrespective of whether a global company sets up its own data centre in India or procures services from an Indian data centre, the tax treatment will be the same, thereby ensuring complete level playing field, they said. The effective corporate tax rate in India is 25.17 per cent. Some of the major domestic data centres in India are Nxtra Data (Airtel subsidiary), CtrlS Datacenters, Yotta Infrastructure, and AdaniConneX. Corporate tax will be levied on profits made by domestic data centres on income earned from .

New tax certainty rules for foreign cloud firms aim to prevent disputes on permanent establishment and global income, boosting confidence in India's fast-growing data centre ecosystem

Hitachi Energy order backlog stood at ₹29,872.2 crore as of December 31, 2025, providing revenue visibility for several upcoming quarters.

The ever-larger numbers - in total, an estimated 60 per cent increase from a year ago - means yet another acceleration in the wave of data centre construction taking place around the world