New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, the artificial intelligence (AI) model took the world by storm. Since then a slew of other companies have launched their own AI models, including Anthropic with Claude, Google with Gemini, and xAI with Grok. And that has led users to lean on AI to search, learn and work.

Indians have been at the forefront in adopting AI. ChatGPT alone has more than 100 million users in India, or around 10% of its global user base. Indeed, government thinktank Niti Aayog estimates that AI adoption could unlock approximately $1 trillion in economic value for India by 2035.

But while Indians are among the world's biggest AI users, much of the computing infrastructure powering this digital...