Satya Nadella Unveils Microsoft’s Record $17.5 Billion India Investment in Meeting With Vaishnaw
Satya Nadella hands India the keys to global AI dominance.
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella personally met Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday to unveil an unprecedented $17.5 billion war chest for India, the single largest investment Microsoft has ever made in Asia, designed to catapult the country from digital leader to undisputed artificial intelligence superpower within this decade.
The mega-commitment encompasses immediate hyperscale expansion of sovereign data-centre regions in Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune, rollout of fully compliant Sovereign Public Cloud and Sovereign Private Cloud environments, and exclusive in-country data processing for Microsoft 365 Copilot by December 2025, making India one of the first nations globally to receive iron-clad data residency and regulatory protection for enterprise AI workloads.
Cutting-edge Azure OpenAI capabilities will be embedded directly into the Ministry of Labour and Employment’s flagship e-Shram and National Career Service platforms, instantly equipping more than 310 million informal and unorganised workers with multilingual AI assistants, precision job matching, predictive career analytics, and automated professional resume generation at unprecedented scale.
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On the human capital front, Microsoft dramatically doubled its earlier pledge by committing to train a staggering 20 million Indians in advanced AI skills by 2030, while its ongoing ADVANTA(I)GE India initiative has already transformed lives by upskilling 5.6 million citizens since January 2025 alone and spawning over 125,000 new jobs and entrepreneurial success stories nationwide.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister Vaishnaw celebrated the historic partnership as irrefutable proof of India’s ascent as the world’s most reliable and sovereign technology partner, declaring that Microsoft’s blockbuster investment will cement India’s leap from pioneering digital public infrastructure to commanding the next era of artificial intelligence-powered public infrastructure for generations to come.
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