New Delhi, May 11 -- Gautam Adani, Chairman of Adani Group, on Monday said India's next economic cycle will be defined by large-scale investments in energy, data centres, compute infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystems.

Addressing the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Annual Business Summit 2026 in New Delhi, Adani said the global economy is entering a new era where strategic advantage will increasingly depend on ownership of energy and intelligence infrastructure.

"Semiconductors have become instruments of statecraft. Data is being treated as a national resource. Clouds are being weaponised. Artificial Intelligence is being built behind the protective walls of data centres," he said.

"The country that controls ...