ET Soonicorns Summit 2025 curtain raiser: AI for Bharat and the race to build localised data centres

With the ET Soonicorns Summit 2025 set to take place on 22 August in Bengaluru, EconomicTimes.com kicked off the conversation with a high-stakes virtual curtain raiser livestream. Among the three panels diving into different facets of artificial intelligence (AI), the opening session—AI for Bharat: How Localised Data Centres Can Bridge the Digital Divide—set the tone for the scale of ambition and urgency the Summit promises to deliver.