Opening Stargate to India: talks initiated
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OpenAI is holding preliminary discussions with Indian data centre companies Sify Technologies, Yotta Data Services, E2E Networks and CtrlS Datacenters, as the artificial intelligence giant firms up plans to bring the $500 billion global joint venture supercomputing project, Stargate, to India.
Conversations with Reliance Industries: The ChatGPT developer has also been holding parallel conversations with oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries for more than six months. Reliance plans to build the world’s largest data centre at Jamnagar in Gujarat.
The discussions have so far ranged from the installed capacities of the data centre companies to their location spread and power availability among others, as these are key considerations before the company.
GOI’s request: The development comes on the back of a request from the Indian government to OpenAI to bring the Stargate project to India and store the data of Indians locally. “The government has told OpenAI that they should invest at least a few billions out of the $500 billion project in India,” an official said.
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said last month that India was the company’s second largest market after the US and might become the largest as it was "incredibly fast growing”.
OpenAI announced the Stargate project in January as a joint venture company that intends to invest $500 billion over four years to build new AI infrastructure in the US.
