{"id":1021746,"date":"2026-07-17T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021746"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:58:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:28:01","slug":"ai-to-fuel-indias-tech-services-growth-public-cloud-spending-to-reach-usd-17-5-bn-in-2026-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/17\/ai-to-fuel-indias-tech-services-growth-public-cloud-spending-to-reach-usd-17-5-bn-in-2026-report\/","title":{"rendered":"AI to fuel India&#8217;s tech services growth; public cloud spending to reach USD 17.5 bn in 2026: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): India&#8217;s technology services sector is expected to see strong AI-led growth, with end-user spending on public cloud services projected to surge 28.1 per cent year-on-year to USD 17.5 billion, according to Equirus Securities. <\/p>\n<p>Globally, the AI boom is driving a rapid expansion of colocation data centres, with demand projected to nearly triple from around 82 GW in 2025 to about 220 GW by 2030, as per Equirus. Furthermore, &#8220;AI workloads are projected to account for around 70% of total data center demand by 2030, making access to power, advanced chips, and fast project execution the key competitive differentiators,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): India&#8217;s technology services sector is expected to see strong AI-led growth, with end-user spending on public cloud services projected to surge 28.1 per cent year-on-year to USD 17.5 billion, according to Equirus Securities. Globally, the AI boom is driving a rapid expansion of colocation data centres, with demand projected to nearly triple from around 82 GW in 2025 to about 220 GW by 2030, as per Equirus. Furthermore, &#8220;AI workloads are projected to account for around 70% of total data center demand by 2030, making access to power, advanced chips, and fast project execution [&hellip;]<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021746","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=1021746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021778,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021746\/revisions\/1021778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}