Data Centre

The BIS warns that the AI boom is becoming a macrofinancial risk, with concentrated investment and rising debt posing potential threats to global financial stability

Industry experts say the next stage of AI development in India will depend on investments in compute infrastructure, data centres, energy, and connectivity

The challenge is that many of the states attracting these investments are already grappling with water stress and rising electricity demand

The Tata data centre fire has shifted the focus from building capacity to ensuring resilience as India's digital infrastructure scales up

AI-driven data centres are making electricity demand harder to predict, with utilities turning to AI to optimise grids and manage rising power needs

Looking ahead, L&T's management expects sustained demand across infrastructure, hydrocarbon, renewables, power T&D, power capabilities and water treatment in both domestic and international.

Sterlite Technologies plans to raise up to ₹1,500 crore through the QIP route. Recently, Bandhan Mutual Fund sold 1.82 million equity shares of STL in open market trade.

A fire at a Delhi data centre disrupted Google Cloud services and raised fears of major data loss for enterprise customers across India

A revitalised Kolkata can once again become both the heart of the state and the growth engine of eastern India

Fair trade regulator CCI on Tuesday approved US-based Alpha Wave Global's proposed stake purchase in Nxtra Data, the data centre and cloud services arm of Bharti Airtel. Alpha Wave Global is acquiring a stake through Alpha Wave Ventures II, LP, a private equity fund co-managed by the alternative asset manager. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said it has cleared the proposed deal. "CCI approves acquisition of certain shareholding in Nxtra Data Limited by Alpha Wave Ventures II, LP," the competition watchdog said in a post on X. In March this year, Bharti Airtel announced that its subsidiary Nxtra Data has secured USD 1 billion investment led by Alpha Wave Global, Carlyle and Anchorage Capital. Bharti Airtel, which will also participate in the investment round, will continue to retain a controlling stake in Nxtra. As part of the acquisition deal, Alpha Wave Global will invest USD 435 million, with the rest to be infused by Carlyle, Anchorage Capital and Airtel. After the

KOEL's push into high-horsepower engines, data centres and exports could support growth and help narrow its valuation discount to market leader Cummins India

Uttar Pradesh aims to attract ₹4.9 trillion in investments and emerge as a major data centre hub, backed by AI-focused, green digital infrastructure

The real estate and investment firm is in advanced talks on three projects that would take its data centre capacity beyond 1 GW, with additional land acquisitions planned to support future growth

Meta sees India as a key hub for AI-driven infrastructure growth, with its upcoming Jamnagar data centre reflecting a long-term investment strategy

In the past one month, the stock price of RR Kabel surged 21 per cent, as against 2.5 per cent rise in the BSE Sensex.

Partnership includes an 8.2 per cent stake acquisition and a joint venture to develop hyperscale datacenter campuses across India amid rising AI and cloud demand

RIL's annual report, according to CLSA, highlights the company's ambition to leverage AI offerings, plans to expand data centre capacity, along with progress in new energy.

The boxy industrial facilities house thousands of servers and chips to process billions of operations daily and store vast amounts of data

AI is transforming the world—but at what cost? By 2030, data centres could consume more electricity than many countries and use enough water to meet the annual needs of 1.3 billion people.

From AI access and workforce disruption to economic reform and market opportunities, this edition explores how nations and industries navigate narrowing gateways