Business
DataQuest
Engineering India's Al-First Data Centres at Hyperscale
Rohan Sheth explains how AI and HPC are reshaping India's data centres, from density and cooling to power economics, sustainability, and hyperscale decision criteria.
4 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
From copilots to colleagues: Why agentic AI is forcing enterprises to rethink control, trust, and culture
As AI agents shift from assisting to acting, enterprises must redesign governance, data controls, and security guardrails so autonomy stays auditable, reversible, and trusted.
2 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Reclaiming Control in the AI Era: A Conversation with Kalyan Kumar, CPO, HCLSoftware
Enterprises are reassessing cloud-first strategies as AI becomes core to operations. HCLSoftware's Kalyan Kumar explains why sovereignty, choice and control now shape decisions.
5 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
When infrastructure learns: The rise of the Al-native core
AI-native infrastructure is moving from concept to operational reality, reshaping how organisations build, govern, and scale intelligence across their digital core.
6 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Bridging the gap between connectivity and compute at scale
As AI scales in India, data centres are evolving into high-density, low-latency platforms that unify connectivity, compute, and sustainability at national scale.
4 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
PUE is not a grapefruit metric, anymore
So what are the new high-hanging fruits for data centre strategists today? And are players going after them?
4 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Even if Al demand fades, India need not worry - about data centres
For every megawatt (MW) of installed colocation capacity, users here generate approximately 13.2 PB of data monthly- compared to 0.3 PB for Australia and just 0.01 PB for Singapore. India's data centre growth is not dependent on one tech lever. Plus, it is phased and modular and not kneejerk. Manoj Paul explains these contours in detail.
7 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
AI infrastructure and systemic risk
What has been the biggest change in data centre industry-specially after AI workloads? Is Al-bubble a big risk for data centre infra- how much will it affect data centres if something cracks?
1 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Inside the Shift to High-Density, Al-Ready Data Centres
CtrlS' Vipin Jain discusses what it truly takes to build AI-ready data centres in India, balancing high density, liquid-ready cooling, resilience, and ESG accountability.
4 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Sustainability is now the headline, not a footnote
Sanjay Agrawal, Head Presales and CTO at Hitachi Vantara India and SAARC opines that the conversation is moving beyond headline metrics like PUE toward a broader view of how data lifecycle management and infrastructure efficiency reduce the overall environmental footprint. Let's see why and how- while also touching upon adjacent (or not-so-adjacent) factors like redundancies, availability and AI-readiness
3 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Is Al Killing Sustainability?
Six tips for your organization to use AI tools to cut corporate GHG footprint and boost sustainability.
6 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Sustainability moves from concept to execution
The transition of sustainability from a conceptual idea to one that is actively being executed.
1 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Governing agentic AI when machines begin to decide at scale
As AI agents gain autonomy across enterprise workflows, SAP outlines how accountability, auditability, and human oversight must be engineered by design.
3 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Securing the age of autonomous agents at machine speed
As autonomous agents reshape security operations, Zero Trust, and human control are essential to prevent new risks.
3 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
HPE rewrites the playbook for AI-native infrastructure
By recasting data centres as AI factories, HPE is redefining how enterprises build secure, compliant, and scalable AI-native infrastructure.
7 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
India's data centre growth and its constraints
What has been the biggest change in the data centre industry in India, and is India echoing global patterns here?
1 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Target's Brad Thompson explains the rise of reliable, responsible agentic AI in retail
Brad Thompson explains how Target is scaling agentic AI across service, data, and operations to boost reliability, strengthen guardrails, and elevate guest experience.
3 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Cybersecurity at the Rack: The New Frontline of Data Centre Resilience
For data centre operators supporting BFSI, health-care, emergency services, and AI workloads, such disruption is not just expensive; it can be catastrophic.
3 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Why orchestration, not infrastructure, will define the agentic AI enterprise
As AI agents evolve into autonomous digital teammates, enterprises must rethink infrastructure, orchestration, and governance to run agentic workloads at scale.
2 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Liquid Cooling is the new 'cool'.
In India, we see the same extreme densification, gigawatt-scale ambitions, and need for utility-independent architectures that define the global AI era- professes Nitin Gavade, Director - IT Solutions, Racks & rPDU, Vertiv while he explains how liquid cooling, high density and modularity are spurring the industry to reimagine data centres.
2 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Power: Not only an environmental call but a financial one!
Scope 2 emissions, renewable power purchase agreements, and PUE no longer stuck in the 1.6 comfort zone. Looks like Sustainability in data centres has moved well beyond optics.
3 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Inside India's race to build Al-ready data centres at scale
As AI workloads scale, India's data centres are being redefined by power, cooling, sustainability, and trust, transforming them into core infrastructure of the digital economy.
3 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Utilisation, not announcements, will define success
Is AI compute demand making data centre investments and strategies myopic and one-dimensional? Any worries about AI bubbles and idle infrastructure?
1 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Designing for flexibility, not hype
\"India's Data Centre infrastructure is broadly moving in line with global trends around higher densities, AIready designs, modular construction, and increased automation.
1 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Engineering the AI-ready core for the next-generation data centre
As AI workloads scale, data centres are being re-engineered for high-density compute, resilient power, and liquid cooling across core-to-edge architectures.
3 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Why agentic AI is becoming the next growth lever for Indian enterprises
Accenture's Pulse of Change shows Indian C-suites backing agentic AI as a growth lever, shifting focus from pilots to scaled enterprise reinvention.
2 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Why zero trust must extend to Al agents in the autonomous enterprise
As agentic AI scales across enterprises, Birlasoft argues that Zero Trust, human oversight, and machine-speed governance are critical to securing autonomy at scale.
2 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
From claims to proof: measuring sustainability in India's data centres
As AI and cloud scale data centre demand, sustainability in India must move beyond intent to auditable metrics, real impact, and transparent proof.
4 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Polyglot Persistence- Not just an exotic idea anymore
SQL will continue to serve as the lingua franca but the world of data will speak in graphs, vectors, LLMs too- and relational databases will stay but not in the same chair. Here's why?
5 min |
January 2026
DataQuest
Bright frogs, Monarch butterflies, Black-yellow bees and industrial automation- same thing?
As counter-intuitive as it may sound- Is automation a stupid loud colour to wear that attracts predators because of bigger attack surfaces or is it strangely-aposematic enough to tell the bad actors - stay away? Specially when security is baked in and bold- and ready for any camouflage? And what happens when Quantum and third-party supply chains make their way into industrial forests? We may not have all the answers but how about a purple-team approach to begin with.
3 min |