Published: February 18, 2026 7:23 am
Author: RT
The information used to train AI models mainly originates in the South Asian nation, Sanjeev Bikhchandani has told RT
India is the ideal location to host data centers for artificial intelligence (AI), a top internet entrepreneur has told RT India in an interview.
A large part of the consumption of AI and social media which has been developed in the West happens in India, internet entrepreneur Sanjeev Bikhchandani said on Tuesday.
“Therefore, a large part of data that is used to train these models comes from India,” he said, adding, “so, it makes sense to have data centers in India.”
Bikhchandani’s comments come as India hosts the global AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, attended by world leaders and an array of technology company heads.
“There will be some disruptions on the job front, but the number of new opportunities created will exceed that,” he said.
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Five years from now, the AI surge will be looked at as an opportunity, rather than a threat, he added.
“We need to do a lot more. Data centers need compute power, land, energy, water. I think we are now beginning to get serious data centers in India, and that is good,” Bikhchandani said in the interview.
India hosts nearly 20% of the world’s data, but its data center capacity accounts for only 3% of the global total, according to official figures.
As demand for cloud services soars, spurred by an AI boom, companies are rushing to invest in data center facilities.
On Tuesday, Adani Group announced plans to invest $100 billion to set up data centers. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have already committed a combined $68 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure investment in India by 2030.
To tap into the AI boom, India has proposed a national policy on data centers.
The power consumption capacity of its data centers, estimated at 1,263 megawatts (MW) as of April 2025, is expected to reach 4,500 MW by 2030.
