{"id":1008830,"date":"2026-05-20T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008830"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:06:29","slug":"microsofts-biggest-india-data-centre-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-centre-on-track-to-go-live-in-mid-2026-executive-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s biggest India data centre on track to go live in mid-2026, executive says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s biggest data center in India \u200bis on track to open \u200bby mid-2026, its country head said on Tuesday, as \u200bthe 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 \u200cCopilot 365 \u2060AI assistant \u2060in the country, Puneet Chandok, president, Microsoft India and South Asia, told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s biggest data center in India \u200bis on track to open \u200bby mid-2026, its country head said on Tuesday, as \u200bthe 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 \u200cCopilot 365 \u2060AI assistant \u2060in the country, Puneet Chandok, president, Microsoft India and South Asia, told Reuters.<\/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-1008830","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\/1008830","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=1008830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008851,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008830\/revisions\/1008851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}