{"id":989180,"date":"2026-02-02T08:19:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989180"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:00:05","slug":"india-rolls-out-red-carpet-for-global-cloud-giants-with-tax-holiday-till-2047","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/india-rolls-out-red-carpet-for-global-cloud-giants-with-tax-holiday-till-2047\/","title":{"rendered":"India rolls out red carpet for global cloud giants with tax holiday till 2047"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Budget 2026 proposed a tax holiday until 2047 for foreign companies that provide cloud services to customers globally, using data centres located in India, signalling the government\u2019s push to make the country a major hub for AI and digital infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>The big push on data centres comes at a time when India is gearing up to take the centre stage in global discourse on Artificial Intelligence. It is expected to position India not just as a consumer of global cloud and AI services, but as a thriving base for the world\u2019s digital backbone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Budget 2026 proposed a tax holiday until 2047 for foreign companies that provide cloud services to customers globally, using data centres located in India, signalling the government\u2019s push to make the country a major hub for AI and digital infrastructure. The big push on data centres comes at a time when India is gearing up to take the centre stage in global discourse on Artificial Intelligence. It is expected to position India not just as a consumer of global cloud and AI services, but as a thriving base for the world\u2019s digital backbone.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989180","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=989180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}