Zoho unveils India-designed server with lower AI costs and greater technology sovereignty

Zoho Corp on Wednesday launched Nathu La, a server platform designed in India, which makes it one of the few domestic technology companies to build a homegrown server architecture leading to reduced infrastructure costs and greater control over AI workloads.

Built over five years by Zoho’s hardware engineering team in Nagpur, this is the company’s first bet towards entering hardware and is expected to reduce total cost of ownership by 20-30% and lower power consumption by 12-18%. The Chennai headquartered company has already deployed nearly 1,000 Nathu La servers in production and pre-production environments as part of its India data centres by year-end.