Link CopyTwitterLinkedinWhatsappHCLTech’s Rs 14,257 Crore Odisha AI Project Goes Beyond ServersHCLTech has chosen Odisha for its first AI data centre, placing a planned Rs 14,257 crore facility inside the Odisha Sovereign AI Park conceived by Sarvam AI. The capital outlay includes financial assistance from the state government, while a new HCLTech Global Delivery Centre will create more than 5,000 jobs. The larger move takes India’s third-largest IT services company from managing other companies’ infrastructure towards owning the compute beneath its AI business.HCLTech made its name selling technology expertise from India to the world. In Odisha, it is preparing to own the machinery behind that expertise: the power-hungry computing capacity AI services depend on.The proposed Rs 14,257 crore facility links HCLTech’s infrastructure operations with Sarvam’s Indian foundation models and a state-backed sovereign AI park. It also puts capital cost, chip supply, electricity, cooling and utilisation into HCLTech’s growth equation.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.