India's AI Summit Just Pulled In $260 Billion — And Rewrote the Global Power Map
Five days in New Delhi. $260 billion in pledges. A new US-India tech alliance with China squarely in the crosshairs. The India AI Impact Summit 2026 wasn’t another safety-focused talkfest — it was a power grab, and India just pulled it off. The Numbers Are Staggering Reliance Industries led with $109.8 billion over seven years for AI and data infrastructure across India. The Adani Group followed with $100 billion by 2035 for renewable energy-powered AI data centers. Microsoft confirmed $50 billion by 2030 for the Global South, with India as the flagship market. Yotta Data Services announced $2 billion-plus for one of Asia’s largest AI computing hubs running NVIDIA’s Blackwell Ultra chips. ...