India Expands AI Infrastructure With Public Compute

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Jan. 22, 2026, at the World Economic Forum in Davos outlined India's five-layer AI mission and said the country has established a public-private compute facility of 38,000 GPUs available to students, researchers and startups at roughly one-third global cost. He advocated a "techno-legal" regulatory approach, emphasized energy and scalable economics, and noted most AI work fits 20–50 billion parameter models.