India, Nov. 7 -- Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping digital infrastructure as rising compute demand places pressure on power, cooling, connectivity and data centre locations. Sovereignty requirements and distributed inference are adding complexity to infrastructure planning.

Roli Agrawal, Chief Strategy Officer, NTT Data, believes infrastructure decisions must balance latency, sovereignty, cost and business outcomes rather than focus solely on computing capacity. She sees a growing role for telecom operators in connecting distributed AI environments.

In this interaction with Voice&Data, she discusses infrastructure constraints, sovereign AI, network architecture, telecom opportunities, India investments, sustainability and autono...