India is expanding the infrastructure behind its artificial-intelligence ambitions, with the government adding GPUs to a shared computing system while data-center capacity rises and cooling technology becomes more specialized.
At the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. The existing capacity is offered to startups, researchers, students and public institutions at a subsidized average rate of ₹65 per hour.
Government figures released in March put the country’s data-center capacity at about 1,500 megawatts in 2025, up from roughly 375 megawatts in 2020. About 38,231 GPUs had been onboarded through 14 approved service providers and data centers in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Noida and Jamnagar.
The expansion is also increasing demand for systems that can manage heat from high-density AI hardware.
The company said traditional air cooling can be insufficient for the heat loads produced by advanced AI chips.
Alongside the infrastructure buildout, officials have cited expanded transmission capacity and recent legislation supporting future small modular and micro nuclear reactors as part of planning for emerging sectors such as AI and data centers.