Samarjit Kaur

India's data centre capacity additions rose 59% to 258 MW in H1 2026, taking operational stock to 1.8 GW. Savills forecasts the market will exceed 7 GW by 2030. By on India’s data centre industry has added 258 megawatts (MW) of new IT capacity in the first six months of 2026, marking a 59% growth from the same period in the last financial year.

Government mandates telecom infrastructure providers to store all telecom data within India and prohibits sharing network information abroad under the new DoT authorisation framework. By on India has reinforced the telecom data governance framework by directing communication providers to limit access to telecom network data within the country.

India has shortlisted 20 home-grown artificial intelligence (AI) model proposals for government support under the IndiaAI Mission, marking one of the country’s biggest efforts yet to build sovereign AI capabilities. The proposals include 12 Large Language Models (LLMs) & eight Small Language Models (SLMs).