{"id":979355,"date":"2025-12-10T08:36:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979355"},"modified":"2025-12-10T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:14:00","slug":"microsoft-commits-17-5-billion-investment-in-india-ceo-satya-nadella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/10\/microsoft-commits-17-5-billion-investment-in-india-ceo-satya-nadella\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft commits $17.5 billion investment in India: CEO Satya Nadella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday announced plans to invest $17.5 billion in India to help build infrastructure and sovereign capabilities for the country&#8217;s AI-first future, marking the third major AI-driven investment in the country in the past two months. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said that the $17.5 billion (around \u20b91.58 lakh crore) investment builds on the $3 billion (around \u20b926,955 crore) funding announced earlier this year, which the company is on track to spend by the end of CY (calendar year) 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday announced plans to invest $17.5 billion in India to help build infrastructure and sovereign capabilities for the country&#8217;s AI-first future, marking the third major AI-driven investment in the country in the past two months. Microsoft said that the $17.5 billion (around \u20b91.58 lakh crore) investment builds on the $3 billion (around \u20b926,955 crore) funding announced earlier this year, which the company is on track to spend by the end of CY (calendar year) 2026.<\/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-979355","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\/979355","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=979355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}