India's AI ambition supercharged with $15 bn boost from Google

TCS statement show it will likely cost at least $6.5 billion to set up. Tata Consultancy Services, India’s biggest IT services provider, had said on 9 October that a data centre of 150 megawatt (MW) capacity costs $1 billion to set up.

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Incremental AI investments may hit $80 bn in 5 years.

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“Having a large-scale, cutting-edge AI data centre facility in India proves to be a sign of confidence for global infrastructure providers that such large facilities are in the market,” said S. Krishnan, secretary at the Union ministry of electronics and IT. “As such facilities scale up, the cost of compute starts rationalizing, which is a great sign for the AI market overall.”