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India's Untapped Data Goldmine
April 11, 2025
|Business Standard
India leads the world in digital data generation, with 450 million Facebook users, 540 million WhatsApp users, and 490 million YouTube users—the highest for each platform globally.
Additionally, 82.6 percent of email users in the country use Gmail, and 360 million are on Instagram. Despite producing an estimated 20 percent of the world's data, India lacks the infrastructure to fully harness this resource.
Countries capitalize on their natural strengths: China controls 70–80 percent of rare earth processing, Australia dominates iron ore mining, and Chile leads copper production. Given India's share of global data generation, it should have at least 20 percent of data center capacity—yet, it has under 2 percent. This gap is a strategic and economic missed opportunity India must bridge to harness its digital growth potential.
Data centers are crucial drivers of economic growth, creating multiplier effects across industries and attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). They support sectors like e-commerce, fintech, and artificial intelligence by enabling secure, high-speed data processing while ensuring regulatory compliance. A 2017 MIT study found that data-driven firms achieved 4 percent higher productivity and 6 percent greater profitability. Generative AI has exponentially increased data's value, with McKinsey estimating it could add between $2.6 trillion and $4.4 trillion to the global economy every year, with productivity gains of up to 40 percent. Data now influences national security, economic power, and global competitiveness. As nations and corporations compete for control over data storage, flow, and use, mastering data infrastructure is key to future leadership. For India, expanding domestic data center capacity is not just an economic necessity—it is a strategic asset shaping the country's technological, geopolitical, and security resilience.
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