Connect | India // Major Panel: How enterprise AI is reshaping infrastructure strategy in India

As AI adoption accelerates across Indian enterprises, infrastructure strategy is becoming a board-level decision. Organisations must decide whether to rely on public cloud AI platforms, host dedicated AI clusters in colocation facilities, build on-prem infrastructure, or combine these models. The right approach depends on workload type, regulatory exposure, internal capability and capital appetite. With rising infrastructure costs and tightening data localisation rules, enterprises must make deliberate decisions about ownership, control and long-term risk. This session will examine the infrastructure choices facing Indian enterprises by addressing:

• How enterprises evaluate public cloud, colocation, GPU-as-a-service and on-prem deployment
• Where training, fine-tuning and inference workloads should be placed
• The cost, control and risk trade-offs between owning and renting AI capacity
• How sovereignty, cybersecurity and compliance requirements shape infrastructure decisions
• What operational risks emerge as AI becomes mission-critical