HCLTech, Sarvam and Odisha plan ₹14,257 crore sovereign-AI data centre

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Published: 24 July 2026 (72-hour extension). HCLTech said its first AI data centre will be established in the planned Odisha Sovereign AI Park with Sarvam and the state government. The stated capital outlay includes government assistance, and a complementary 5,000-person technology centre is targeted for 2028.

Why it matters: The project combines domestic models, local compute, multilingual services and public-sector sovereignty. Impact: It may expand India’s regulated and local-language AI capacity, but it remains at plan/MoU stage; compute capacity, power and construction milestones were not disclosed. HCLTech · a report