Beyond ‘data colonialism’ — The role of Global South in an AI world| Business News

The world has never been evenly arranged. Borders, ideas, capital, opportunities have never ever been equally distributed. The language of global development has always attempted to soften this reality with polite abstractions such as “developing countries” or “emerging economies”, yet the deeper historical geography of inequality is best captured in one term: ‘Global South’. The […]

OpenAI teams up with Foxconn to build hardware for AI data centres| Business News

OpenAI is partnering with Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (Foxconn) to design and manufacture hardware for AI data centres, amid a grow need for AI infrastructure globally. Foxconn has separately announced a venture with Intrinsic to explore AI data centres. (Reuters) Foxconn will co-design and develop data centre server racks with OpenAI, and work to […]

Meta Platforms is said to partner Sify for 500 MW AI data centre in Visakhapatnam| Business News

Meta Platforms Inc. is said to partner Nasdaq-listed and India-focused Sify Technologies Ltd. to set up a 500 MW data centre in Visakhapatnam, as global technology firms descend on the east-coast city to tap into India’s insatiable appetite for AI compute. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms will also land its ambitious subsea cable project ‘Waterworth’ at […]

TCS gets $1 billion from TPG for its AI data centre business called HyperVault| Business News

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has raised $1 billion from TPG for its AI data centre business called HyperVault, as part of its endeavour to become the world’s largest AI-led IT services company. For TCS, the AI data centre in India opens a new frontier. (Reuters) The San Francisco-based private equity firm and India’s largest IT […]

Anant Raj’s subsidiary to build data centers, IT Park under MoU with Andhra Pradesh

Real estate developer Anant Raj’s subsidiary, Anant Raj Cloud, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Andhra Pradesh government to develop new data center facilities and an IT park in the coastal state. Under the MoU, ARCPL will invest approximately ₹4,500 crore, to be executed in two phases, to build the infrastructure and […]

India’s data centre capacity crosses 1.5 GW, Mumbai leads with 53% share: CBRE

India’s total data centre (DC) capacity has surpassed 1.5 gigawatts (GW) for the first time, with Mumbai accounting for 53% of the operational stock, about 1,530 megawatts (MW) as of September 2025, according to a report by CBRE. The city’s dominance is attributed to its proximity to global internet exchange points and undersea cable landing […]

Google wants to build AI data centres in space, powered by the sun| Business News

Google has launched a new research moonshot, called ‘Project Suncatcher’, to build AI data centres in space powered by the sun. Google, in partnership with satellite maker Planet Labs, plans to launch two prototype satellites by early 2027 to test the harware in orbit. (AI Image) The idea is to build a constellation of solar-powered […]

Reddit vs Perplexity, and the scourge of ‘data laundering’ in an AI slop world| Business News

Reddit Inc. has sued Perplexity AI Inc. for “industrial-scale data laundering”, as AI firms increasingly scrape websites—often without permission—for original content to train their large language models. Data laundering is “cleaning up dirty data to make it look legal and trustworthy” (Representative Image/Unsplash) Three data-scraping companies—OxyLabs UAB, AWMProxy and SerpApi—have been illegally collecting Reddit data […]

Google partners Adani, Airtel to build India’s largest AI data centre in Vizag| Business News

Adani Enterprises Ltd., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Bharti Airtel Ltd. have come together to build India’s largest AI data centre in Visakhapatnam, as part of the Gemini creator’s $15-billion push into India’s AI landscape. Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani. (Bloomberg) Adani ConneX, the data-centre joint venture of Adani Group and US-based Edge ConneX, along with […]