India didn’t just join the AI race—it entered it differently.
While most of the world built AI infrastructure for incremental enterprise growth, India’s digital economy expanded through mass adoption across payments, content, healthcare, commerce, and public digital platforms. This shift did not merely accelerate demand; it fundamentally altered the requirements of what “AI-ready infrastructure” must deliver.
Abundant and increasingly reliable power, a rapidly improving grid, and an explosion of digital demand beyond traditional metropolises means that India cannot be served by centralized infrastructure alone. It requires a model that is distributed by design, power-first in engineering, and capable of delivering consistent performance across geography.
This is the reality Techno Digital was built for. Backed by a four-decade legacy in power infrastructure through Techno Electric & Engineering Company Ltd. (TEECL), Techno Digital is building what is becoming India’s largest interconnected data center network—infrastructure fabric designed to deliver hyperscale-grade compute, AI inference, and cloud workloads anywhere in the country, with economics that global operators increasingly struggle to achieve.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ankit Saraiya is the driving force behind Techno Digital and one of the new-age leaders shaping India’s digital infrastructure future. A second-generation leader and strategic visionary, Saraiya is transforming TEECL—a 1 Billion dollar USD plus market-cap, debt-free infrastructure giant into a future-ready digital infrastructure powerhouse.
With a bold vision to invest 1 billion USD in data centers by 2030, Saraiya is leading Techno Digital’s mission to build sustainable, hyperscale, and edge-led digital infrastructure for India. His vision is anchored in TEECL’s four-decade legacy of engineering excellence and powered by renewable energy, strong governance, and long-term capital discipline.
From the 36MW carbon-neutral campus in Chennai to AI-ready hyperscale data centers in Kolkata & Noida, and a landmark nationwide Edge DC rollout with RailTel, Ministry of Railways across 23 states. Saraiya’s leadership is reshaping India’s digital backbone. At the intersection of energy, sustainability, and digital infrastructure, he is building not just data centers, but the foundation of a digitally empowered India.
