The Ultimate Guide to AI Infrastructure
A curated Indian edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for AI Infrastructure.
What to know about AI Infrastructure
AI Infrastructure explores the hardware, software, and systems that make modern artificial intelligence possible. This tag covers everything from compute and storage architectures to networking, data pipelines, and observability stacks that keep AI workloads reliable and efficient.
Stories here dig into practical questions: how to design scalable training and inference clusters, choose between GPUs and emerging accelerators, manage feature stores, and orchestrate distributed workloads. You’ll find discussions of MLOps practices, cost optimization, performance tuning, and the trade-offs behind different infrastructure patterns.
Whether you’re building a new AI platform or evolving an existing stack, this tag helps you understand the components, constraints, and design decisions that sit underneath AI products. Reading these pieces will give you concrete examples, architectural patterns, and lessons learned that you can apply to your own systems.
Indian AI Infrastructure News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Blue Cloud wins USD $150 million SpaceX Malaysia deal
The 18-month pact could boost Blue Cloud's overseas revenue as it expands its US unit's role in AI, security and data-centre services.
India leads global AI workplace readiness, JLL says
Fewer than one in five Indian firms have started changing office space despite AI readiness outpacing global peers, JLL said.
STT GDC India launches Jaipur data centre in Rajasthan
The new site gives enterprises and government users in Jaipur access to local co-location as demand for cloud and AI capacity grows.
TCS opens Bengaluru AI lab for industrial autonomy
Manufacturers and transport firms will be able to test AI systems in Bengaluru before deployment, cutting risk in live industrial operations.
ESDS launches Swaraj Cloud for Indian regulated sectors
Indian banks and government bodies get a domestic cloud option as ESDS seeks to ease data-residency compliance and speed deployments in minutes.
MongoDB adds AI retrieval tools for regulated firms
Regulated firms can now keep AI retrieval inside MongoDB, cutting latency and compliance headaches as it rolls out new search tools.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to AI Infrastructure
Hitachi Vantara posts 12% revenue growth on AI demand
Data centre power market set to hit USD $70.94bn by 2034
Tencent rolls out Hy3 internationally for enterprise AI
Ethyca launches Astralis to govern enterprise AI data
Fortinet launches FortiGate 1200G with FortiSASE Outpost
Featured News
John Margerison on the new class of employee: AI managers
Businesses should treat AI like a new hire, as weak oversight could expose sensitive data and leave staff needing fresh skills to stay relevant.
Marvell targets AI connectivity bottleneck with NVIDIA boost
AI data centres are hitting copper limits, pushing Marvell and Nvidia towards optics as clusters grow larger and more distributed.
Expert Columns
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent AI Infrastructure News
Constl names Nidhi Pandey as Chief Information Officer
The hire supports Constl's fibre expansion in India, where better internal systems are becoming crucial for serving telecom and cloud customers.
HCLTech leads Sarvam's USD $150 million Series B close
The round values the sovereign AI start-up at USD $1.5 billion as it seeks funding for research and compute to expand across key sectors.
Nvidia & Reliance to Build AI Infrastructure for India
Nvidia and Reliance are partnering to build AI infrastructure in India, aiming to position the nation as a global AI innovation hub.
MongoDB adds AI retrieval tools for live Atlas data
Developers will be able to build AI agents on live production data without separate vector stores or synchronisation overhead.
OpenAI launches Ultrafast GPT-5.6 Sol for businesses
Businesses in the preview can use the model for real-time coding, support and trading tasks, with responses up to 14 times faster.
MongoDB adds AI retrieval tools to Atlas platform
Developers can now query live Atlas data from ChatGPT, Claude and coding agents, cutting setup work and reducing stale AI responses.
Databricks tops USD $7 billion run-rate after funding
Investor demand for private AI software remains strong as Databricks hits a USD $7 billion revenue run-rate and a USD $190 billion valuation.
Dynatrace buys Arize in USD $915m AI observability deal
The tie-up could give enterprises a single way to track AI model quality and system performance as production deployments accelerate.
Dell'Oro lifts data centre chip forecast on AI demand
Rising AI infrastructure spending is set to push the global data centre semiconductors market to USD $1.8 trillion by 2030, Dell'Oro says.
Nvidia & Wall Street launch $500bn AI funding push
The tie-up could unlock financing for AI data centres as demand for computing power outstrips the balance sheets of cloud providers.
Centuria & ResetData expand AI pipeline beyond 250MW
Customer demand is outstripping near-term AI compute capacity as the pair line up power, data halls and GPUs to speed deployments.
Allianz warns data centre boom reshapes insurer risk
Rising losses and tighter underwriting are forcing insurers to treat data centres as mission-critical infrastructure rather than specialist property.
NVIDIA unveils Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for local agents
Developers can now run more specialised AI agents on PCs and compact systems, as NVIDIA broadens support for open-weight local models.
NVIDIA outlines 800 VDC power plan for AI factories
The shift could help AI data centre operators add denser racks without rebuilding sites, as NVIDIA moves to cut power-conversion losses.
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning & Switchyard
Cheaper, faster agent workflows are the aim as Nvidia's new open model and routing library target multi-model AI systems.
Enlightra uses Yokogawa analysers for AI data-centre links
Demand for denser AI data-centre links is pushing Enlightra to validate comb-based laser chips with high-resolution spectrum testing.
Most firms delay AI projects amid governance fears
Governance and infrastructure problems have forced 95% of enterprises to delay or scrap AI projects, according to a new Cloudera survey.
Enterprise SSD prices jump 5% as AI storage costs soar
AI cloud operators face sharply higher storage bills, with a mixed-fleet design costing almost USD $39 million less than all-flash over three years.
Everpure wins second top-five hyperscaler storage deal
The agreement could lift revenue from fiscal 2028 as cloud operators seek denser, more power-efficient storage for AI-heavy data centres.
QumulusAI lands Blackwell GPU deal with hedge fund
The deal ties QumulusAI's returns to a hedge fund's trading gains, adding profit sharing to standard compute fees and heightening revenue risk.