{"id":992717,"date":"2026-02-17T08:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992717"},"modified":"2026-02-17T08:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:11:26","slug":"india-plans-ai-data-city-on-staggering-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/17\/india-plans-ai-data-city-on-staggering-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"India plans AI &#8216;data city&#8217; on staggering scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As India races to narrow the artificial intelligence gap with the United States and China, it is planning a vast new &#8220;data city&#8221; to power digital growth on a staggering scale, the man spearheading the project says. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The AI revolution is here, no second thoughts about it,&#8221; said Nara Lokesh, information technology minister for Andhra Pradesh state, which is positioning the city of Visakhapatnam as a cornerstone of India&#8217;s AI push. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And as a nation&#8230; we have taken a stand that we&#8217;ve got to embrace it,&#8221; he told AFP ahead of an international AI summit in New Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As India races to narrow the artificial intelligence gap with the United States and China, it is planning a vast new &#8220;data city&#8221; to power digital growth on a staggering scale, the man spearheading the project says. &#8220;The AI revolution is here, no second thoughts about it,&#8221; said Nara Lokesh, information technology minister for Andhra Pradesh state, which is positioning the city of Visakhapatnam as a cornerstone of India&#8217;s AI push. &#8220;And as a nation&#8230; we have taken a stand that we&#8217;ve got to embrace it,&#8221; he told AFP ahead of an international AI summit in New Delhi.<\/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-992717","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\/992717","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=992717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}