Microsoft Plans $3 Billion AI, Cloud Investment in India

Microsoft plans to invest $3 billion to expand its artificial intelligence and cloud Azure services in India, turning to the world's most populous nation to fuel its revenue growth engine. From a report: The firm, which has been operating in India for more than two decades, will also train an additional 10 million people in the country with AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at an event in Bengaluru Tuesday.

"The investments in infrastructure and skilling we are announcing today reaffirm our commitment to making India AI-first, and will help ensure people and organizations across the country benefit broadly," said Nadella. "The diffusion rate of AI in India is exciting." India is a key overseas market for American tech giants that have poured tens of billions of dollars in building and scaling their operations in the South Asian market over the past two decades as they work to court businesses serving hundreds of millions of users.

Satya 'Robin Hood' Nadella

[Njovich]

What an awesome guy, raising prices to take billions money from the west and deliver it all to India. A true Robin Hood of our time.

AI?

[Anonymous Coward]

So in this case AI stands for "Augmented Indians", "Assisted Indians" or "Actually Indians"?

Re:

[ArchieBunker]

Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if some of the backend AI stuff was just cheap Indian labor.

Wut

[CEC-P]

Satya Nadella gave a giant contract to India? Impossible! That never happens. He would never! By the way, you know how far $3 billion would go for education and infrastructure in that country instead of burning electricity to crunch numbers to sell bullshit services to people that don't want them for a price they've already rejected?