{"id":1030698,"date":"2026-08-24T07:58:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030698"},"modified":"2026-08-24T08:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:44:27","slug":"compute-capacity-is-foundational-infra-of-the-ai-era-says-google-indias-vp-country-manager-preeti-lobana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/24\/compute-capacity-is-foundational-infra-of-the-ai-era-says-google-indias-vp-country-manager-preeti-lobana\/","title":{"rendered":"Compute capacity is foundational infra of the AI era, says Google India&#8217;s VP &amp; country manager Preeti Lobana"},"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-1030698","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\/1030698","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=1030698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030727,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030698\/revisions\/1030727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}