{"id":1008817,"date":"2026-05-20T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008817"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:50:56","slug":"microsofts-biggest-india-data-center-on-track-to-go-live-in-mid-2026-executive-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/20\/microsofts-biggest-india-data-center-on-track-to-go-live-in-mid-2026-executive-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s biggest India data center on track to go live in mid-2026, executive says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s biggest data center in India is on track to open by mid-2026, its country head said on Tuesday, as the tech giant spends heavily to bolster its position in one of the world&#8217;s largest markets for artificial intelligence services.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s &#8220;massive demand&#8221; for Azure cloud services and the $30-a-month Copilot \u200c365 AI \u2060assistant in \u2060the country, Puneet Chandok, president, Microsoft India and South Asia, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Like rivals Alphabet and Amazon, Microsoft sees India as a potentially profitable market for AI thanks to its more than 1 billion internet users and deep tech talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s biggest data center in India is on track to open by mid-2026, its country head said on Tuesday, as the tech giant spends heavily to bolster its position in one of the world&#8217;s largest markets for artificial intelligence services. There&#8217;s &#8220;massive demand&#8221; for Azure cloud services and the $30-a-month Copilot \u200c365 AI \u2060assistant in \u2060the country, Puneet Chandok, president, Microsoft India and South Asia, told Reuters. Like rivals Alphabet and Amazon, Microsoft sees India as a potentially profitable market for AI thanks to its more than 1 billion internet users and deep tech talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008818,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008817\/revisions\/1008818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}