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Microsoft steps up India Al game with $17.5 billion
Mint Hyderabad
|December 10, 2025
Data centre plan Microsoft's biggest Asia bet, total India commitment tops $20 bn
Microsoft Corp. chief executive Satya Nadella on Tuesday marked the year's second visit to India with a commitment to invest $17.5 billion in data centres, hours after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
That brings Microsoft's total India investment commitments in 2025 to $20.5 billion, including a $3 billion initiative announced during Nadella’s January visit to build artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and provide skilling.
The US tech giant said this was its largest investment in Asia to date, but did not specify the total capacity for its data centres in India. The plan includes a new data centre in Hyderabad, set to open by June 2026, alongside the expansion of its three existing data centres in Chennai, Mumbai, and Pune.
This story is from the December 10, 2025 edition of Mint Hyderabad.
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