New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, including leaders from Adobe, FedEx, Microsoft, Amazon and Google, the message was clear: India is central to the next phase of global AI infrastructure.

With $67.5 billion in AI and data centre investments expected over the next five years, the opportunity is historic. Yet beneath the optimism lies a harder truth: infrastructure may be scaling faster than workforce capability.

At a high-level panel moderated by Harjiv Singh, Founder and CEO of CambrianEdge.ai, industry and policy leaders debated how India can close the gap between AI literacy and AI fluency.

In an exclusive interaction with CiOL,Rohit Kumar Singh, former secretary to the Government of India and chair of the Glo...