The missing blocks of India’s AI puzzle

Power. Water. Capital. Last week, you would have heard these three words more times than you can count. Every panel, every keynote, every address orbits around India’s ability to generate enough electricity, secure enough cooling water, and attract sufficient foreign investment to build the 8 GW of data centre capacity that the nation has targeted by 2030.

These are real and important challenges, but that is not the focus here.

It is about the conversations that do not get enough limelight, the one about certification standards tuned for India, and the engineering talent to uphold them. These are the missing blocks of India’s AI puzzle. Unglamorous, invisible to investors, absent from discussions and yet very critical.