{"id":1045772,"date":"2026-10-30T08:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045772"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:40:54","slug":"scaling-ai-why-optical-interconnects-are-unsung-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/30\/scaling-ai-why-optical-interconnects-are-unsung-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaling AI: Why optical interconnects are unsung heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the growing deployment of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-intensive workloads, the challenge is no longer just adding more compute capacity but connecting and efficiently managing the capacity as it expands across geographies. <\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s installed base of GPU capacity is likely to grow from 38,000 to 100,000 by the end of 2026, reflecting the growing demand for AI compute. In addition, the Government of India has also launched IndiaAI Mission, with an investment of INR10,732 crore^ to democratize AI and boost compute capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the growing deployment of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-intensive workloads, the challenge is no longer just adding more compute capacity but connecting and efficiently managing the capacity as it expands across geographies. India\u2019s installed base of GPU capacity is likely to grow from 38,000 to 100,000 by the end of 2026, reflecting the growing demand for AI compute. In addition, the Government of India has also launched IndiaAI Mission, with an investment of INR10,732 crore^ to democratize AI and boost compute capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1045772","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\/1045772","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045794,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045772\/revisions\/1045794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}