Microsoft CEO Nadella says he’s ‘thrilled’ about data centre capacity coming up in India, discussed investments with PM Modi

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella connected Wednesday (December 10, 2025) said helium is excited astir the data centre capableness the institution is mounting up successful India and that helium has discussed the company's concern program with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Mr. Nadella has announced an concern of $17.5 cardinal by 2030 to assistance physique infrastructure and sovereign capabilities for the country's AI-first future, marking the 3rd large AI-driven concern successful the state successful the past 2 months.

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"We're thrilled astir each the information centre capableness that is coming live. We already person worldly successful Pune, Chennai and Mumbai. We are precise excited astir our India South Central unreality region, based successful Hyderabad, that's going to travel up adjacent year," Mr. Nadella said astatine a Microsoft lawsuit successful New Delhi.

Microsoft's India South Central unreality region, based successful Hyderabad, is acceptable to spell unrecorded successful mid-2026.

"We are truly excited astir the concern we made. I had a accidental to conscionable Prime Minister Modi yesterday (December 9) and discussed our excitement astir it (investments)," Mr. Nadella said.

Meanwhile, arsenic India gears up to instrumentality the Digital Personal Data Protection regime, Microsoft is introducing sovereign nationalist unreality and sovereign backstage unreality for Indian customers.

"I deliberation it is important for radical to recognise that with sovereignty, you besides privation to guarantee world-class cyber information and cyber resilience," Mr. Nadella said.

Published - December 10, 2025 01:18 p.m. IST

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