The country’s expanding artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem will require computing power of more than 100,000 GPUs in the coming years as AI adoption accelerates across key sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and ESG compliance.

The growing demand for computing power shows the nation’s push towards building domestic capacity and reducing dependence on foreign infrastructure, said Abhishek Singh, CEO of IndiaAI Mission and additional secretary in the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY).

“Today, we have around 38,000 GPUs available at a cost of about Rs 65 per GPU per hour, which is less than a dollar compared with $2.5-3 elsewhere,” Singh said at the TiEcon Delhi-NCR event. “But as we start using AI at scale, the requirement will go beyond 1

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