{"id":989186,"date":"2026-02-02T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989186"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:01:33","slug":"union-budget-2026-27-ai-push-widens-to-chips-and-data-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/union-budget-2026-27-ai-push-widens-to-chips-and-data-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Budget 2026-27: AI push widens to chips and data centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence has been given a sharper policy push in the Union Budget, with targeted spending across semiconductor manufacturing, data centre infrastructure and AI software development, signalling a more integrated approach to building a domestic AI ecosystem. <\/p>\n<p>On the hardware side, the government has continued backing the India Semiconductor Mission, with the focus shifting to accelerating chip fabrication, advanced packaging and electronics manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence has been given a sharper policy push in the Union Budget, with targeted spending across semiconductor manufacturing, data centre infrastructure and AI software development, signalling a more integrated approach to building a domestic AI ecosystem. On the hardware side, the government has continued backing the India Semiconductor Mission, with the focus shifting to accelerating chip fabrication, advanced packaging and electronics manufacturing.<\/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-989186","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\/989186","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=989186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}