India is no longer just a consumer of global AI—it's aggressively building the sovereign infrastructure to run it on its own soil, backed by hard policy and even harder capital.

Evidence For

• HCLTech signed a ₹14,257 crore ($1.5 billion) MoU with Sarvam AI and the Odisha government to build its first AI Data Centre at the upcoming Odisha Sovereign AI Park, plus a 5,000-seat Global Technology Center in Bhubaneswar.
• The government's Ministry of Power projects data centre...