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We Invite World’s Data to Reside in India: PM Modi Ahead of AI Impact Summit 2026
PM Modi invites global data to India, backed by Budget tax incentives and 1.5 GW data-centre capacity, aiming to create jobs and build a strong AI ecosystem.
- On Sunday, Modi invited the `whole world's data to reside` in India ahead of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, which he will inaugurate on Monday.
- Modi noted that government capex has done much of the heavy-lifting, urging the private sector to `step up, invest boldly` for innovation-led growth.
- Illustrating infrastructure progress, data-centre capacity in India reached 1.5 GW across seven major Indian cities by the end of 2025 and is expected to cross 1.7 GW this year, Modi said.
- Global tech CEOs are converging in Delhi as Modi's pitch to host global data aims to attract investment and position India as a leading AI hub in the Global South.
- Modi urged the private sector to step up, invest boldly after government capex, saying Indian firms must boost research and development and adopt frontier technologies to compete globally.
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'Data centres will be a massive job creator for our youth': PM Modi invites global data to India ahead of AI Summit
In the Union Budget 2026 presented earlier this month, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced incentives aimed at attracting global cloud players to operate from India.
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The Economic TimesData centres to be massive job creator: PM Modi
This comes a day before the PM opens the India AI Impact Summit and Expo at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. The high-powered event, being held from February 16 to 20, will be the first-ever AI summit hosted in the global south and is anchored in the three guiding principles of 'People, Planet, and Progress'.
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