HCLTech announces Bhubaneswar AI data center partnership

HCLTech has announced plans to set up its first AI Data Center in the upcoming Odisha Sovereign AI Park in partnership with Sarvam and the Government of Odisha.

• The planned capital outlay for the project is Rs 14,257 crores, with financial assistance from the Government of Odisha.
• A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in the presence of Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, Electronics and IT Minister Dr Mukesh Mahaling, HCLTech Chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra, CEO & MD C Vijayakumar, and Sarvam Co-Founder Pratyush Kumar.
• HCLTech said the project will support India’s sovereign AI ecosystem, leverage HCLTech full-stack AI capabilities and Sarvam foundation models, and deliver multilingual AI-based services; the company also noted the AI data center will support GPU deployments for AI training and inference workloads.