The Internet economy has grown very fast in India mainly because of increased smartphone usage and affordable data. Tech giants have been wooed with significant incentives, particularly in states such as Telangana. Microsoft’s research and development centers in India are second only to those in the US, where two-thirds of its 23,000 employees in the country are engineers.
According to data from GitHub, Microsoft’s coding platform, a quarter of all AI projects are now managed in India.
However, the issue that crops up is environmental considerations, especially considering that data centers are heavy consumers of both electricity and water.
Even though India’s utilities artificial intelligence have invested large sums of money in renewable power sources, FT claimed that India relies heavily on coal for power generation. To cut its emissions and reach its goal of being carbon-negative by 2030, Microsoft has entered power purchase agreements with renewable power producers in India.
