{"id":989881,"date":"2026-02-05T08:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989881"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:59:10","slug":"tax-holiday-for-global-cloud-cos-using-indian-data-centres-can-make-india-hub-for-ai-cognizant-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/05\/tax-holiday-for-global-cloud-cos-using-indian-data-centres-can-make-india-hub-for-ai-cognizant-exec\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax holiday for global cloud cos using Indian data centres can make India hub for AI: Cognizant exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-term tax holiday announced in the Union Budget for global cloud firms using Indian data centres has the potential to make India a global hub for AI and services in the next few years, Cognizant CFO Jatin Dalal said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The Budget proposals will have &#8220;far-reaching consequences&#8221; for the tech landscape, and measures such as clubbing various IT service segments under a unified tax framework with an expanded safe harbour limit, all directionally point towards India&#8217;s big vision, Dalal told reporters during Cognizant&#8217;s Q4 earnings briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-term tax holiday announced in the Union Budget for global cloud firms using Indian data centres has the potential to make India a global hub for AI and services in the next few years, Cognizant CFO Jatin Dalal said on Wednesday. The Budget proposals will have &#8220;far-reaching consequences&#8221; for the tech landscape, and measures such as clubbing various IT service segments under a unified tax framework with an expanded safe harbour limit, all directionally point towards India&#8217;s big vision, Dalal told reporters during Cognizant&#8217;s Q4 earnings briefing.<\/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-989881","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\/989881","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=989881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}