India, Aug. 24 -- The reported increase in prices of servers containing NVIDIA's AI chips could add to the cost pressures facing India's data centre operators and AI infrastructure providers, which are committing billions of dollars to expand their GPU capacity.

According to a Bloomberg report, some of NVIDIA's largest customers have been told that prices of servers containing its AI chips will increase by more than 15% in many cases for systems shipped in early 2027.

The hikes are expected to affect systems featuring NVIDIA's flagship Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips. The exact hike will depend on the chip generation and memory configuration.

Companies that build servers under contract for large data centre operators such as Micro...