{"id":1009500,"date":"2026-05-23T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009500"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:36:56","slug":"gpuaas-has-potential-for-telcos-but-challenges-limit-interest-says-tech-mahindras-amol-phadke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/23\/gpuaas-has-potential-for-telcos-but-challenges-limit-interest-says-tech-mahindras-amol-phadke\/","title":{"rendered":"GPUaaS has potential for telcos, but challenges limit interest, says Tech Mahindra\u2019s Amol Phadke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Homegrown IT services company Tech Mahindra said GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) presents a long-term potential for telecom carriers, but interest in this segment remains limited due to financial risks and evolving demand visibility. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGPU\u2011as\u2011a\u2011Service presents long\u2011term potential for telcos as artificial intelligence (AI) demand shifts toward distributed compute and edge infrastructure, areas where telcos have inherent strengths, including network proximity and established enterprise relationships,\u201d Amol Phadke, chief transformation officer, Tech Mahindra, told ETDatacenters in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Homegrown IT services company Tech Mahindra said GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) presents a long-term potential for telecom carriers, but interest in this segment remains limited due to financial risks and evolving demand visibility. \u201cGPU\u2011as\u2011a\u2011Service presents long\u2011term potential for telcos as artificial intelligence (AI) demand shifts toward distributed compute and edge infrastructure, areas where telcos have inherent strengths, including network proximity and established enterprise relationships,\u201d Amol Phadke, chief transformation officer, Tech Mahindra, told ETDatacenters in an interview.<\/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-1009500","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\/1009500","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=1009500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009526,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009500\/revisions\/1009526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}