AI Infrastructure Could Become India’s Next Trillion-Dollar Growth Story: Vinish Bawa, PwC India
Artificial Intelligence is triggering one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in modern history.
As AI workloads become increasingly compute-intensive, they are fundamentally reshaping how data is stored, processed, and moved across the digital economy. Data centres, once viewed primarily as back-end infrastructure, are rapidly emerging as strategic assets underpinning cloud computing, AI innovation, digital services, and national competitiveness.
India is uniquely positioned to benefit from this shift. According to PwC India, India’s installed data centre capacity is expected to grow from approximately 1.6 GW today to nearly 13.8 GW by 2035, supported by an estimated $71.6 billion in investments.
In this conversation with Express Computer, Vinish Bawa, Partner and Telecom Sector Leader, PwC India, and Global Data Centres Practice Leader, discusses India’s AI infrastructure opportunity, the rise of data centres, emerging investment hotspots, and what it will take for India to become a global digital infrastructure hub.
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