India, July 6 -- One question deserves far more attention in India's technology sector: what happens to the country's artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and cybersecurity buildout if falling crude oil prices reverse later this year?

Buried inside Standard Chartered's latest macroeconomic view is a signal that every Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) planning a data centre expansion should watch closely. The same energy variable that is giving India more policy room today could, if it turns, expose the power, cooling, and resilience layers on which AI systems and security operations centres now depend.

According to Standard Chartered's Weekly Market View report, falling global crude pri...