Gautam Adani, Chairman of Adani Group, said India must develop sovereign capabilities across artificial intelligence, energy and digital infrastructure, warning that future global power will increasingly depend on control over compute capacity and energy systems, as per PTI report.
Speaking at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Annual Business Summit 2026, Adani said the era of traditional globalisation is rapidly changing amid geopolitical fragmentation and growing competition over technology infrastructure.
According to him, semiconductors have become strategic geopolitical tools, data is now treated as a national resource and artificial intelligence systems are increasingly being built within protected data infrastructure ecosystems.
Adani described energy security and digital security as the “twin pillars” of future national strength. He stated that countries controlling energy resources would shape industrial growth, while nations controlling compute infrastructure would lead the intelligence economy.
Adani said India should treat AI not merely as software but as an integrated infrastructure ecosystem involving power generation, chips, networks, cooling systems, data centres, compute capacity, governance and skilled talent.
He stressed that India must build, power and own the infrastructure supporting its future AI economy domestically instead of depending on overseas systems.
The billionaire industrialist said India’s large domestic demand across manufacturing, logistics, mobility and digital services gives the country a strong foundation for scaling AI and energy infrastructure.
As of March 2026, India’s installed power capacity has crossed 500 GW and is projected to expand to nearly 2,000 GW by 2047, according to Adani. He also projected AI-driven data centre capacity to rise from 5 GW by 2030 to nearly 75 GW by 2047.
Adani reiterated the group’s previously announced commitment of $100 billion towards energy transition and renewable infrastructure.
The group’s 30 GW renewable energy project at Khavda in Gujarat, described by Adani as the world’s largest single-site renewable energy plant, has already commissioned around 35% of planned capacity.
The conglomerate has also committed an additional $100 billion towards its data centre business and sovereign compute ecosystem initiatives.
Adani said the group is partnering with Google to develop a gigawatt-scale data centre campus in Visakhapatnam, while Microsoft, Flipkart and Uber are collaborating on data infrastructure projects.
Adani rejected concerns that artificial intelligence would primarily eliminate jobs. Instead, he said AI should be used to improve productivity, support entrepreneurs and create new employment opportunities.
Drawing comparisons with India’s UPI-led digital payments transformation, he said AI could unlock a much larger wave of innovation and economic participation across sectors.
He also stated that India’s traditional IT outsourcing model would need to evolve in the AI era from writing software code to building sovereign intelligence infrastructure.
Gautam Adani’s remarks underline the growing importance of energy, data infrastructure and sovereign AI capabilities as India positions itself for the next phase of technological and industrial transformation.
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Published on: May 12, 2026, 9:53 AM IST
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