{"id":1030682,"date":"2026-08-24T07:45:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030682"},"modified":"2026-08-24T07:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:27:51","slug":"compute-capacity-is-foundational-infra-of-the-ai-era-says-preeti-lobana-vice-president-and-country-manager-at-google-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/24\/compute-capacity-is-foundational-infra-of-the-ai-era-says-preeti-lobana-vice-president-and-country-manager-at-google-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Compute capacity is foundational infra of the AI era, says Preeti Lobana, vice-president and country manager at Google India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compute capacity is the foundational infrastructure of the modern era &#8211; akin to national power grids and railroads that fuelled gross domestic product during the industrial revolution, said Preeti Lobana, vice-president and country manager at Google India during a fireside chat with ET&#8217;s Surabhi Agarwal. <\/p>\n<p>Discussing Google&#8217;s major commitments in India, including a $15 billion investment toward building a 1-gigawatt AI data centre hub in Visakhapatnam, Lobana outlined how a combination of cutting-edge hardware, localised AI models, and inclusive upskilling would power India&#8217;s ambitious target of a $1 trillion digital economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compute capacity is the foundational infrastructure of the modern era &#8211; akin to national power grids and railroads that fuelled gross domestic product during the industrial revolution, said Preeti Lobana, vice-president and country manager at Google India during a fireside chat with ET&#8217;s Surabhi Agarwal. Discussing Google&#8217;s major commitments in India, including a $15 billion investment toward building a 1-gigawatt AI data centre hub in Visakhapatnam, Lobana outlined how a combination of cutting-edge hardware, localised AI models, and inclusive upskilling would power India&#8217;s ambitious target of a $1 trillion digital economy.<\/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-1030682","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\/1030682","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=1030682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030703,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030682\/revisions\/1030703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}