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India AI Impact Summit: What are data centres and why tech giants like Google and Amazon are investing heavily to develop them in India

Shriti Sagar - 20 February, 2026

Indian conglomerates are also making bold moves. The Adani Group has announced plans to invest up to $100 billion in data centres by 2035.

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Modi govt’s big boost to data centres in Budget 2026: Read how global cloud giants are being welcomed to invest in India, and why...

Anurag - 2 February, 2026

The policy promises long term certainty for foreign investors and data centre expansion, but Indian cloud founders warn it may deepen reseller dependence unless parallel incentives are created to support domestic platforms and technology ownership.

Government and Policy

ISRO plans to put data centres in orbit, says preliminary study finds it feasible and a system is being conceived

OpIndia Staff - 11 December, 2025

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is studying the feasibility of deploying data centres in space, and an internal preliminary study has been completed...

Government and Policy

Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw proposes positioning Andaman Islands as global internet data transfer hub and a submarine cable link from Vizag to Mizoram through Myanmar’s...

OpIndia Staff - 14 October, 2025

In a bold bid to redefine India’s role in the global digital landscape, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw has proposed...

Economy and Finance

Google to build India’s largest AI Data Centre with $15 billion investment in Visakhapatnam in close collaboration with Adani Group and Airtel

OpIndia Staff - 14 October, 2025

The government of Andhra Pradesh had previously put the investment at approximately $10 billion, and stated the project would generate approximately 1.88 lakh (188,000) direct and indirect employment opportunities.

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Fraudsters who ran a ₹3,558 crore ‘cloud space’ scam arrested: How the ED and UP government busted the data centre scam

Rukma Rathore - 5 March, 2025

The ED arrested Vuenow Group CEO Sukhvinder Singh Kharour and his wife, Dimple, for a ₹3,558 crore Ponzi scheme involving fraudulent "cloud particle" investments.

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Amazon Web Services commits investment of ₹60,000 crore to expand its data centre infrastructure in Hyderabad

ANI - 23 January, 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has committed to investing Rs60,000 crores to expand its data centre infrastructure in the Hyderabad region.

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India dominates Asia in terms of data centre capacity, gets $40 million funds: Understanding what exactly is a data centre and its importance

OpIndia Staff - 16 May, 2024

Initiatives like Digital India and supportive regulatory frameworks have encouraged investments in data centres, paving way for India to outpace major APAC countries in data center capacity

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