India, July 14 -- Yotta's Billion-Dollar Silicon Safari

Yotta Data Services is building one of India's biggest AI compute reserves. The neocloud giant is undertaking a massive GPU build-out, chasing global clients and gearing up for a potential IPO. So, can Yotta turn its capital-heavy ambition into a durable AI business?

Going All Out: Yotta plans to invest $7 Bn in AI infrastructure by FY27. As part of this, it plans to deploy 40,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in the next four months, taking its total capacity to about 85,000 chips by FY27-end. However, most of this compute will be diverted to overseas markets.

The Global Push: Until recently, Yotta devoted nearly 70% of its GPUs to India-based training workloads. Once those projects wrap...