Microsoft To Invest $17.5 Billion in India (microsoft.com) 25
Microsoft announced on Tuesday its largest-ever investment in Asia -- $17.5 billion over four years starting in 2026 -- to expand cloud and AI infrastructure across India, fund skilling programs, and support ongoing operations in the country. The commitment adds to a $3 billion investment the company announced in January 2025 that is on track to be spent by the end of 2026. A new hyperscale cloud region in Hyderabad is set to go live in mid-2026 and will be Microsoft's largest in India, comprising three availability zones.
The company also plans to integrate AI into two government employment platforms -- e-Shram and the National Career Service -- that serve more than 310 million informal workers. Microsoft is doubling its India skilling target to 20 million people by 2030; since January, it has already trained 5.6 million.
The company also plans to integrate AI into two government employment platforms -- e-Shram and the National Career Service -- that serve more than 310 million informal workers. Microsoft is doubling its India skilling target to 20 million people by 2030; since January, it has already trained 5.6 million.
Less environ regs and (Score:2)
...cheap Russian oil. Profit!
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The jeetification will continue unabated. Lovely.
Wonder why they can't do any of this here at home?
Finally (Score:2)
Good. I assume they use the money for the most pressing inference and training needs such as the importance of using utensils to handle food and good hygiene practices.
Interesting. (Score:1)
Somebody's going to get angry, make some threats, bluster, cave, go silent, then defend H1B while saying "America First".
Nobody in particular. Just the royal "Somebody".
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Jaguar was dying before Tata took over (Score:2)
Jaguar has been dying for ages. In the five years of independence from 1984 to 1989, they did basically no R&D. They never made a profit under Ford ownership from 1989 to 2008. If anything, Tata revitalised the Jaguar brand, achieving major increases in sales year-on-year up to the mid 2010s, but they still struggled to turn a profit.
Sad (Score:5, Insightful)
Western companies only interested in creating jobs overseas, and helping other nations with tax payers.
What happened to "America first"? :(
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The "America first" asshole decided that the USA can't build more big solar power installations and there's no other way to build power for datacenters fast enough. Then he decided to scare Indian students away from the USA. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft's Indian CEO decided to expand Microsoft's presence in India. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
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Datacenters need power at the scale of nuclear power: that's why Microsoft bought the Three Mile Island plant, and have it operating to serve power to their datacenters. Solar power won't do a thing
Also, Satya Nadella is an American citizen, as is Sundar Pichai and several other Indian CEOs. If only India could stop being socialist and less bureaucratic, they would have been movers & shakers in the Indian economy, w/o involving US
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Effect of tariffs. If you're making a widget, you can make it in China and make it in the US. Because of US tariffs, making it in China is no longer an option. So you create jobs making the widget in the US. But what about worldwide demand? You could export it from the US, but because the US tariffs cause reciprocal tariffs, it's not cost effective to ship US made widget
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Remember IBM (Score:2)
This is going to turn into Microsoft's equivalent of the "sell every product to HCL" pipeline of IBM.
Inevitable. (Score:1)
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That got dark quickly. Maybe you should stop fantasizing about murder being the solution to your problem? There's ALWAYS alternatives.
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Depends. The good ones don't tend to stay in India but emigrate to other countries. All the US did was basically chase them out of the US, and now they get re-hired outside of the US.
Waste (Score:2)
of money.
e-Sham? (Score:2)
Sounds about right.