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India launches its first AI industry body
MUMBAI: India just gave artificial intelligence its own rules of engagement. The Artificial Intelligence Association of India (AIAI) has officially launched as the country’s first dedicated industry body for AI, aiming to steer the ethical, inclusive and innovation-driven growth of artificial intelligence across India’s creative and technology sectors. Think of it as a referee, coach and cheerleader all rolled into one, making sure AI plays fair whilst helping India score big.
Led by National Convenor Sandeep Goyal, AIAI arrives at a pivotal moment when India’s AI ecosystem is expanding rapidly but operating without formal guardrails. The association will bring together technologists, creators, legal experts, educators and industry stakeholders spanning advertising, design, film, music, gaming, publishing and emerging tech sectors.
“AI is no longer the future. It is the now,” Goyal said. “And India cannot afford to be a passive consumer in this revolution. With AIAI, we are building the ethical and institutional guardrails that ensure India’s creative industries not only thrive with AI, but do so on their own terms.”
The association has outlined five key objectives for responsible AI adoption:
Policy and advocacy: AIAI will represent creative industries in AI consultations with MeitY, DPIIT and Niti Aayog, giving creatives a seat at the policy table.
Ethical standards: The body will develop certification frameworks for ethical AI practices across advertising, film, music and design.
Skilling and inclusion: AIAI aims to train over 10,000 creative professionals in AI tools and workflows by 2026.
Research and development: The association will incubate India-focused AI tools for content creation, translation, personalisation and storytelling.
Creative IP protection: AIAI will lead efforts to safeguard artist attribution, combat deepfakes and evolve copyright rules for AI-generated content.
AIAI plans to establish “ethical sandboxes” for testing AI use cases and a national AI incident registry to track challenges such as bias, misinformation, deepfake misuse and copyright concerns. It’s basically building a playground where AI can experiment safely whilst someone watches to make sure nobody gets hurt.
“Creative AI isn’t just a technology story,” Goyal emphasised. “It’s a story about what kind of country we want to be, how we preserve language, culture, livelihoods and imagination in a time of machines. This is India’s moment to lead, not follow. And AIAI will make sure we do.”
The governing board, set to include senior leaders from major corporations and multiple creative domains, will be announced shortly. For now, India’s AI revolution has found its institutional voice, and it’s speaking with one clear message: India won’t just adopt AI. It will shape it.
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Adani Enterprises plans $100 billion AI data centre push by 2035
Renewable-powered facilities plus $150 billion ripple effect to build $250 billion ecosystem.
MUMBAI: Adani Enterprises is plugging straight into the AI power grid and it’s bringing enough juice to light up a continent. On Tuesday, the ports-to-power conglomerate announced a staggering $100 billion investment to build renewable-energy-backed, AI-ready data centres across India by 2035, aiming to catapult the country from the sidelines into a serious contender in the global AI arena.
The plan doesn’t stop at bricks and servers. Adani estimates the move will spark an additional $150 billion in related industries, think server manufacturing, sovereign cloud platforms and more creating a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem over the next decade. Shares of Adani Enterprises (ADEL.NS) responded with enthusiasm, closing 2.7 per cent higher and topping the Nifty 50 gainers list.
Adani Enterprises chairman Gautam Adani captured the ambition in a post on X, “For decades, we imported technology. Now we are building the backbone. India will not follow the AI century. India will shape it.”
The strategy hinges on a tightly integrated model: renewable power generation, grid resilience and massive computing capacity. Adani will scale its existing 2 GW data centre footprint to 5 GW, targeting what it calls the world’s largest integrated platform (timeline not specified). Alongside, $55 billion goes into expanding renewables, including one of the planet’s biggest battery energy storage systems.
The company already has skin in the game, a partnership with Google, which committed $15 billion over five years for AI data centres, its largest-ever India investment. Adani also plans to deepen ties with Walmart-backed Flipkart for a second AI facility and is in talks with other major players for large-scale campuses nationwide.
India’s sudden AI infrastructure gold rush isn’t happening in isolation. Global giants Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft are pouring money in, while home-grown heavyweights Reliance and TCS race to grab their slice. Data centres, the report notes, offer India its clearest shot at relevance in a chip-making world it has largely missed.
In a landscape where AI is the new electricity, Adani’s mega-bet is less about keeping the lights on and more about powering tomorrow’s digital empire, one renewable watt at a time. Whether the grid (and the stock market) can handle the load remains the real test.
