{"id":1026958,"date":"2026-08-07T08:08:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026958"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:25:12","slug":"microsoft-opens-its-largest-india-data-center-hub-as-ai-race-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/07\/microsoft-opens-its-largest-india-data-center-hub-as-ai-race-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft opens its largest India data center hub as AI race heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft launched its largest India data center in Hyderabad on Thursday and has signed up Adani Group and HDFC Bank among early users as it races rivals for the country&#8217;s fast-growing AI market. <\/p>\n<p>The India South Central facility brings Microsoft&#8217;s cloud \u200cregions in \u2060India \u2060to four, adding to existing centers in Pune, Chennai and \u200bMumbai, and cementing its position as the country&#8217;s largest cloud-computing provider, <\/p>\n<p>The \u200bWindows maker has committed about $20.5 billion to expand its India opreations, betting on a market of more than \u200b1 billion internet users and one \u2060of the \u200cworld&#8217;s deepest pools of tech talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft launched its largest India data center in Hyderabad on Thursday and has signed up Adani Group and HDFC Bank among early users as it races rivals for the country&#8217;s fast-growing AI market. The India South Central facility brings Microsoft&#8217;s cloud \u200cregions in \u2060India \u2060to four, adding to existing centers in Pune, Chennai and \u200bMumbai, and cementing its position as the country&#8217;s largest cloud-computing provider, The \u200bWindows maker has committed about $20.5 billion to expand its India opreations, betting on a market of more than \u200b1 billion internet users and one \u2060of the \u200cworld&#8217;s deepest pools of 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-1026958","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\/1026958","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=1026958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026981,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026958\/revisions\/1026981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}