{"id":285173,"date":"2026-02-15T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/285173\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:30:09","slug":"india-plans-ai-data-city-on-staggering-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/285173\/","title":{"rendered":"India plans AI &#8216;data city&#8217; on staggering scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    New Delhi \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>As India races to narrow the artificial intelligence gap with the United States and China, it is planning a vast new &#8220;data city&#8221; to power digital growth on a staggering scale, the man spearheading the project says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The AI revolution is here, no second thoughts about it,&#8221; said Nara Lokesh, information technology minister for Andhra Pradesh state, which is positioning the city of Visakhapatnam as a cornerstone of India&#8217;s AI push.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And as a nation &#8230; we have taken a stand that we&#8217;ve got to embrace it,&#8221; he said ahead of an international AI summit this week in New Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Delhi \u2013 As India races to narrow the artificial intelligence gap with the United States and China,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,38698,363,364,607,372,2344,111,139,69,370,145,863,147855],"class_list":{"0":"post-285173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-andhra-pradesh","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-computers","14":"tag-india","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-tech","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-u-s","21":"tag-visakhapatnam"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}