October 8, 2026, Mumbai, India – AI cloud infrastructure provider CoreWeave has announced its entry into India through a collaboration with AdaniConneX, with plans to develop 240 megawatts (MW) of data center capacity in Navi Mumbai. The expansion will extend CoreWeave’s AI Cloud platform into one of the world’s fastest-growing AI and digital infrastructure markets, … Read more
7 October 2026 – Water technology company Gradiant is expanding its presence in India with a new country leadership appointment, five new design-build contracts across semiconductor, printed circuit board (PCB) and solar manufacturing, and plans to increase its India workforce by more than 40% this year. The company has appointed Hari Prasad as Managing Director, … Read more
Gnani AI has launched Gnani Ascent, a flagship partner program designed to accelerate the adoption of sovereign, frontier-grade AI across enterprises and help businesses move from AI experimentation to production. As enterprises increasingly transition from AI pilots to real-world deployments, the challenge is shifting from access to AI capabilities to integrating intelligence into existing systems, … Read more
September 25, 2026, 12:30 PM IST, Hyderabad, Telangana – Telangana is targeting 5 GW of data centre capacity by 2029, as Hyderabad strengthens its position as a major destination for hyperscale cloud, artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure investment. The state government estimates that the broader AI and digital infrastructure ecosystem could attract around $30 billion … Read more
September 17, 2026 | 7:30 PM IST – India’s data center industry is entering a period of extraordinary expansion. But behind the growth in capacity, investment and AI infrastructure is another story: the relatively limited representation of women in senior data center leadership. Savills India estimates that India’s operational data center capacity reached approximately 1.8 … Read more
NEW YORK, September 2, 2026 — Deloitte has acquired substantially all of the assets of Wavicle Data Solutions, a data and AI engineering organization known for its Databricks practice, in a move designed to expand Deloitte’s ability to help businesses build the data foundations required for enterprise AI at scale. The acquisition brings Wavicle’s technical … Read more
Houston, September 1, 2026 — The next bottleneck in artificial intelligence may not be chips. It may be heat. That is the thesis behind SLB’s $4.1 billion acquisition of Kelvion, a global provider of thermal management and heat-exchange technologies. The oilfield-services giant has agreed to acquire Kelvion for approximately $3.4 billion in cash and assume … Read more
August 31, 2026 – NVIDIA and MediaTek are significantly expanding their longstanding technology partnership, targeting the next generation of AI computing platforms across data-center infrastructure, local AI systems and automotive applications. As part of the expanded collaboration, MediaTek will adopt NVIDIA NVLink Fusion as a foundation for developing custom AI accelerators, giving hyperscalers, cloud service … Read more
NEW DELHI | AUGUST 28, 2026 – Bengaluru-based voice AI company Gnani.ai has launched Artha, an end-to-end sovereign AI stack designed for Indian enterprises and public institutions, marking a major new product push emerging from the IndiaAI Mission. The platform was formally launched at Uprashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi by Vice President C P Radhakrishnan, … Read more
REDMOND, Wash – Starcloud, a company developing data centers in space, has raised $250 million in a Series A extension round, valuing the company at $2.3 billion post-money. The funding round was led by Manhattan West, with participation from existing investors including Benchmark, EQT, Soma, NFX and 776. New investors joining the round include NVIDIA, … Read more
Boise, Idaho — August 20, 2026: Micron Technology has announced the launch of Micron Research Labs, a new U.S.-based long-horizon research institution focused on developing next-generation memory, computing architectures, semiconductor packaging and manufacturing technologies for the AI era. Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, the research hub is backed by a planned $10 billion investment over the … Read more
AI company ShepHertz Technologies has launched AgentAnywhere, a sovereign agentic AI platform designed to help banks, insurers, hospitals, government organisations and BPOs deploy AI agents within their own infrastructure, cloud environments and encryption frameworks. The platform is aimed at organisations that want to adopt agentic AI while maintaining control over sensitive data, model access, security … Read more
In 2020, building a data center cost roughly $7.7 million per megawatt of capacity. By 2026, that global benchmark has climbed to $11.3 million per megawatt — a 47% increase in six years, driven mostly by construction labor, electrical equipment, and land scarcity near power-rich sites. That was already a steep curve. Then artificial intelligence … Read more
In an exclusive conversation, Vijay Morampudi, who leads the Global AI Centre of Excellence within Marsh’s Global Capability Centre (GCC) and drives agentic AI orchestration for the firm’s Risk & Insurance business, on why AI strategy has to start with the business — not the model — and the rollback mechanism every enterprise deploying AI … Read more
“India has 20% of the world’s internet users. It holds 1.5% of global data center capacity. The chips inside cost more than the building and the land combined. Even the largest tech companies lease more than they own, because owning sinks returns. Countries think differently. They need jurisdiction, not hardware. So what happens to a … Read more
Ahmedabad, India | August 10, 2026: Ahmedabad-based thermal management startup KühlTherm has launched two locally developed liquid cooling solutions aimed at supporting the growing demand for high-density artificial intelligence (AI) workloads in India’s data centre industry. The company has introduced a Rear Door Heat Exchanger (RDHx) and a Cooling Distribution Unit (CDU), alongside what it … Read more
New Hyderabad cloud region reinforces Microsoft’s long-term India strategy as demand for AI, cloud computing, and digital infrastructure continues to accelerate. Microsoft has expanded its cloud infrastructure in India with the launch of its India South Central Azure cloud region in Hyderabad, taking the company’s total number of cloud regions in the country to four. … Read more
Padua, Italy: Critical digital infrastructure provider Vertiv has announced new investments at its Tognana campus near Padua, Italy, aimed at expanding manufacturing capacity and advanced testing capabilities for data center cooling systems. The expansion comes as demand for AI-ready infrastructure and high-density computing continues to surge worldwide. Vertiv expects the investment to double its chiller … Read more
New Delhi, India: Yotta Data Services has launched a ₹10,000 Free Credits Program for Shakti Studio, its AI development and inference platform, aimed at helping developers, startups, enterprises, researchers, and Global Capability Centers (GCCs) build and deploy artificial intelligence applications without the upfront cost of GPU infrastructure. The initiative provides complimentary access to serverless GPU … Read more
Somewhere between a UPI payment cleared in Bengaluru and a chatbot query answered in Mumbai sits a server rack, humming inside a data centre that likely didn’t exist five years ago. Multiply that rack by thousands, spread it across six states, and you have the outline of what Wood Mackenzie now calls one of Asia-Pacific’s … Read more
