Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
The sector’s administrative ministry: data protection, the IndiaAI Mission, the semiconductor mission and the still-unnotified national data centre policy.
In Vayam’s reporting
What is a megawatt of data centre? A field guide to MW, PUE, Tiers and GPU-hours
MeitY says India has about 1,575 MW of data centres. CBRE says it is heading for 2 GW. Both are right. Here is what every word in those headlines is actually counting.
Online before China? The 1995 boast, and the state decisions behind India's data centres
VSNL's Independence Day internet was not first in Asia. What it began was a chain of state choices, from STPI's earth stations to RBI's data rule, that private capital has filled ever since.
The 2047 tax holiday, read carefully: the concrete must be Indian, but only on paper
India will not tax foreign cloud firms' global income from Indian data centres until 2047. An August amendment lowered the gates further. What the bargain asks for in return is thinner than it sounds.
India can write its own AI. It cannot yet make the thing that runs it
Sarvam and BharatGen trained Indian models on Indian soil. Underneath them sits imported silicon, and the terms of import are written in Washington. A floor-by-floor walk through India's AI stack.
IndiaAI rents its GPUs by the hour. The numbers show who pays for them
The IndiaAI Mission owns almost none of its 45,000-odd GPUs. It empanels private operators and pays part of the bill. Here is what that has bought, and what it has not.
Why India's data centres live by the sea
Thirteen of India's eighteen international cables come ashore on one six-kilometre stretch of Mumbai. The compute followed the cables, and the next landings are on the east coast.
Your ₹20 UPI payment is not allowed to leave India. That rule built buildings
Since April 2018 the RBI has required every payment record to be stored only in India. Follow one chai-stall QR scan and you find the anchor tenant of India's data-centre industry.
The building that drinks: India's data centres and the water nobody meters
India put its data centres in its thirstiest cities. After a 76% monsoon in the south, the industry's water bill is still a guess, and only one state has asked to see it.