Aug 6 (Reuters) – Microsoft launched its largest India data center in Hyderabad on Thursday and has signed up \u200cAdani Group and HDFC Bank among early users \u200cas it races rivals for the country’s fast-growing AI market. <\/p>\n
The India South Central \u200bfacility brings Microsoft’s cloud regions in India to four, adding to existing centers in Pune, Chennai and Mumbai, and cementing its position as the country’s largest cloud-computing provider, <\/p>\n
The Windows maker has \u200ccommitted about $20.5 billion to \u2060expand its India opreations, betting on a market of more than 1 billion internet users and \u2060one of the world’s deepest pools of tech talent. <\/p>\n
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\u2022 Azure, Microsoft’s cloud-computing arm, has posted double-digit revenue \u200bincreases in \u200bIndia for the last two \u200byears, the company said. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Microsoft \u200calso operates two data centers in the South Asian nation with Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Jio. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Creating value with AI “requires trusted infrastructure close to where data lives, teams work and decisions are made,” said Microsoft India President Puneet Chandok, adding \u200cthe new facility “is a critical part \u200bof that foundation” <\/p>\n
\u2022 Rivals Alphabet and \u200bAmazon are also pouring \u200bmoney into data center capacity in India, drawn \u200cby the country’s large potential \u200bpool of AI \u200busers. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Not all of those efforts have gone smoothly. Environmentalists have accused authorities of fast-tracking a planned Google \u200bdata center hub \u200cin India without weighing risks to water supplies and \u200bwildlife, allegations the government rejects. <\/p>\n
(Reporting by Aditya Soni in \u200bBengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 6 (Reuters) – Microsoft launched its largest India data center in Hyderabad on Thursday and has signed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14135,420,7829,85,1415,320,7828],"class_list":["post-131581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-microsoft","tag-adani-group","tag-azure","tag-azure-ai","tag-data-center","tag-india","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}