GoI's thrilled. The world's biggest tech companies are pouring humungous sums into Indian data centres. Amazon, the biggest, plans to invest $35 bn over 5 yrs. Google has committed $15 bn, plus partnership with Indian conglomerates. Meta is building a major facility near Google's proposed sites. Microsoft has announced $17.5 bn in AI-related investments.
These investments represent more than warehouses full of computing capacity. India has made data sovereignty a central objective of digital policy. It says data generated in India must be stored in India and not in distant overseas facilities. That is impossible without enormous domestic computing and storage capacity. Massive data centres are, therefore, essential for India's national security.
