AI is the biggest opportunity for tech sector, IT industry: Chandrasekaran

N Chandrasekaran says AI is the next great infrastructure as Tata Sons plans India's first large-scale AI-optimised data centre with OpenAI

Highlighting that artificial intelligence (AI) is the “next big infrastructure, an infrastructure of intelligence”, Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran said that it would have a very profound impact just like steam engines, electricity or the internet had in the past.

 

Underscoring the transformative impact of AI, Chandrasekaran said that the group is adopting AI across the stack.

 

Announcing major plans for the company, Chandrasekaran said that the Tata group would establish the country’s first large-scale AI optimised data centre, purpose-built for next-generation AI training and inference. “I’m very happy to announce that we have partnered with OpenAI to build the first 100 megawatt capacity, which will scale to 1 gigawatt.”

 

 

Mentioning the need for global and local partnerships, he added that the company also announced a collaboration with AMD to create high-density AI capacity in India.

 

As for other initiatives, he said, “We are already building an AI data insights platform. What we are building is totally based on diverse Indian data sets on top of the foundational models. So, intelligence becomes available across the diversity of Indian contexts.”

 

Chandrasekaran mentioned that Tata Consultancy Services and Tata Communications together are building an AI operating system for the industries.

 

“What we will do is build agentic industry solutions for every industry. We are already well on that journey and will work with partners to be able to launch it and take it to all enterprises around the globe.”

 

In addition, the firm also has plans to build domain-centric AI-optimised chips for every industry. “We will first launch or work towards getting it ready for the automotive sector,” he added.

For the IT sector, he said that this is the biggest opportunity for the industry. “Because the IT industry’s real value is the context: An understanding of every enterprise’s business and technology landscape and make the right technology work inside the processes and the ecosystem, the supplier, customer and all the other connections an enterprise has,” he added.

 

He said, “I just want to say that we are standing here at a very defining moment. It is the age of abundant intelligence, where the scarce resources are trust, stewardship, and human capability.”