With India’s data centre capacity set to rise sevenfold to 10 GW by 2030, robust frameworks are essential to avert long‑term strains on power, water, and infrastructure, argue Anupam Varma and Aditya Gupta. There is a particular kind of darkness that descends upon a city when the power fails, not the romantic darkness of a...
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Real-Time Public Works
The irreversible expansion of digital infrastructure and real‑time data will be critical to improving the reliability and quality of public works, affirms Virender Kumar. As India builds infrastructure on an unprecedented scale, accountability can no longer be determined by delayed reports. The country’s next leap in infrastructure governance will depend on the ability to see...
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Global Trade at Crossroads
Recent supply chain disruptions have exposed the fragility of global trade, prompting businesses and governments to rethink resilience through diversification, nearshoring, and strategic stockpiling, writes Vikash Khatri. In the present era, global trade is highly interdependent, wherein countries rely on each other for raw materials, intermediate goods, technology, and finished products. Such trade requires highly...
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From Cloud to Energy: India’s Geopolitical Stress Test
The West Asia conflict is reshaping India’s risk management and creating an opportunity to accelerate and complete its energy reform agenda, underline S&P Global and Crisil analysts. The sustained nature of the West Asia war is changing Indian risk management from providing immediate buffers to reorienting medium- to long-term strategies. Even before the conflict, the...
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The Economics of Road Safety
As India builds several kilometres of highways daily, road safety must move from the margins to the centre of national development to sustain the growth story, asserts Amit Thatte. India’s growth story is moving fast, but there is a hard truth we need to acknowledge. Every year, road crashes cost the country nearly 3 per...
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When Climate Hits the Grid
Intensifying climate shocks and rising asset exposure demand climate‑informed resilience across India’s power sector value chain, argue Zeya Farhan and Krishna S Kumar. India’s power sector is undergoing historic expansion, driven by urbanisation, electrification, and economic growth. Historically, India’s power generation fleet has been dominated by conventional generation capacity. However, in the last decade, renewable...
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AI Factories: Turning Data to Scale
As India’s surging data demand reshapes the digital landscape, success will depend on designing AI‑ready data centres as critical infrastructure for smarter factories, notes Robert HK Demann. Artificial intelligence (AI) is not only about software; it is also equally about infrastructure. Just as steel plants, refineries, and other industrial systems are engineered to run reliably...
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Nuclear power an inevitable option for Net Zero emission by 2070 and developed India by 2047
Dr Anil Kakodkar, India’s renowned nuclear engineer and former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, discusses the country’s energy transition, the critical role of nuclear power in achieving Net Zero Emission targets, uranium supply challenges, thorium opportunities, the SHANTI Bill, and the future of Bharat Small Reactors and SMRs, in conversation with Swapnesh Malhotra, a...
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Digital India’s Beating Heart
Crossing the milestones of sustainability, resilience, policy coherence, and capacity expansion will determine whether India can transform into a global hub for digital infrastructure, writes Manish Pant. An important cornerstone in India’s ambition to become a developed nation by 2047 is the creation of a robust digital public infrastructure backbone. And the world’s fastest‑growing major...
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AI is the transformative engine of the next century
Riding on the AI‑based solutions high, Pune‑headquartered prescriptive AI firm, Infinite Uptime, is now eyeing top‑dollar heavy industry projects in the US, Europe and Australia. Even as the company has earmarked up to 30 per cent capex for overseas expansion, Karthikeyan Natarajan, CEO, tells INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY’s Manish Pant that India must maximise its digital public...