Hiranandani-Backed Yotta Data Services and MarketsandMarkets Release Whitepaper on India's AI Execution Gap
India's AI Execution Gap Requires Sovereign Infrastructure, New Research Finds
Yotta Data Services and research firm MarketsandMarkets released a new whitepaper titled "AI Adoption Landscape in Indian Enterprises: From Readiness to Realization," delivering a data-driven assessment of India's enterprise AI ambitions and where they are stalling.
The research finds that while 87% of Indian enterprises have moved past AI pilots, infrastructure constraints — not strategy — are the primary barrier to production-scale deployment.
The Scale of India's AI Market Opportunity
India's AI market is projected to expand nearly 7x from USD 17.87 billion in 2026 to USD 119.44 billion by 2032. Yet this growth trajectory masks a structural weakness. Despite ranking among the top globally in AI operating environment and enterprise adoption, India contributes just 2% of global large-scale AI systems — a stark indicator that readiness and execution remain disconnected.
Sovereign Compute as Foundation
India's next phase of AI leadership will not be won on talent or policy alone. Sovereign, scalable compute infrastructure aligned to the IndiaAI Mission is the foundational layer that will determine whether India becomes a net producer, not just a consumer, of global AI systems.
The whitepaper emphasizes the growing importance of sovereign AI infrastructure, where data residency, regulatory compliance, and secure compute environments are essential for enterprise-scale AI operations.
Yotta's Role in the Landscape
Yotta is positioned as that foundational layer: combining high-performance NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure, data sovereignty, and ecosystem partnerships to enable enterprises, startups, and public institutions to build AI that is secure, scalable, and globally competitive.
Yotta's Shakti Cloud emerges as a key enabler, offering AI-native, GPU-accelerated cloud infrastructure built entirely within India. Powered by NVIDIA H100 GPU clusters (with B200 and B300 GPUs coming soon), Yotta enables enterprises to train, fine-tune, and deploy AI models at scale, while ensuring low latency, high throughput, and cost efficiency.
About Yotta Data Services
Founded in 2019, Yotta Data Services is the data centre and cloud infrastructure arm of Hiranandani Group's Nidar Infrastructure platform. The company was established with a clear strategic objective: to build hyperscale, sovereign, AI-ready data centre infrastructure across India and selected regional markets.
The company operates large campuses in Navi Mumbai and Greater Noida and is scaling its Panvel land bank to about 70 acres, enabling up to 22 buildings and power feasibility of up to 2 GW. Yotta's revenue more than doubled to an estimated USD 49.2 million in FY24 from USD 22 million in FY23; the company projects FY25 revenue of USD 156 million as capex deepens to capture AI and cloud demand.