India's AI Boom: Why TCS Pivoted To This AI Strategy Ahead of 2026? – Republic World
After tech giants like Google bet big on India’s role in the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) boom, TCS has introduced a fresh AI strategy to become the “largest AI-led tech services organisation”.
On the first Analyst Day in 10 years, the Mumbai-headquartered tech company revealed that its AI services revenue grew by 16.3% to $1.5 billion, and its next-generation services revenue rose to $11 billion, according to a CLSA report.
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Moreover, TCS is looking to capatalise on the AI wave in India after companies like Google announced plans to invest $15 billion for creating an AI data centre campus in Vizag, Andhra Pradesh, which in its construction phase would create nearly 1,00,000 jobs.
Meanwhile, Reliance Industries’ revealed its $11-billion joint venture to develop 1 GW of AI data capacity in Andhra Pradesh. On other hand, AWS has earmarked $8.3 billion to cloud infrastructure in Maharashtra.
Earlier, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) had also announced plans to infuse nearly $6.5 billion over the upcoming period of 5–7 years to build 1 GW of data-centre capacity. The other major.investment plans includes OpenAI’s 1 GW data centre in India.
Currently, the south Asian nation is credited with generating 20% of the world’s data, but hosts only 3% of the global data centre capacity.
Published By : Nitin Waghela
Published On: 24 December 2025 at 15:18 IST
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