According to the founder and chairman of the Adani Group, energy security and digital infrastructure would define geopolitical power in the decades ahead, urging India to develop sovereign capabilities across the artificial intelligence (AI) value chain.
The chairman said the assumptions that had underpinned decades of globalisation were being dismantled in the face of rising geopolitical fragmentation.
Referring to recent geopolitical conflicts and attacks on infrastructure, he said energy security and digital security had become the twin pillars of national power. He argued that India should treat AI not merely as software but as strategic infrastructure, encompassing energy, data centres, chips, networks, compute and talent.
Further, the chairman reiterated his ports-to-energy conglomerate’s previously announced commitment of $100 billion towards energy transition and digital infrastructure. This includes a 30-gigawatt (GW) renewable energy project at Khavda in Gujarat, as well as partnerships with Google and Microsoft in India’s data centre and sovereign compute ecosystem.
