Microsoft will invest 3 billion dollars to expand AI.

BENGALURU (Reuters) Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on Tuesday that the company will invest around $3 billion to enhance capacity for artificial intelligence and its Azure cloud computing services in India.

The IT behemoth is the latest to announce an investment in India, which is regarded as a crucial growth area for US technology businesses due to its population of over 1.4 billion people and low-cost internet access.
In recent months, executives such as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun have visited India.

At a seminar in Bengaluru, southern India, Nadella stated that the $3 billion investment will be the “single largest expansion” in the nation.

According to Nadella, Microsoft plans to train 10 million individuals in AI in India by 2030.

When Nadella visited India early last year, he declared that the business will educate 2 million people in AI by 2025, with a concentration on smaller towns.

Nadella met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday to discuss “tech, innovation, and AI” as well as “Microsoft’s ambitious expansion and investment plans in India.”

Microsoft has been investing billions of dollars in growing capacity throughout the world to improve AI infrastructure and its data center network.
The corporation last week announced intentions to invest around $80 billion in fiscal 2025.

More than half of the investment will be made in the United States, with an emphasis on creating data centers for training AI models and deploying AI and cloud-based services.