NTT DATA accelerates India’s digital future with multi billion AI and infrastructure investments

NTT DATA, a worldwide digital enterprise and know-how providers supplier, has introduced a collection of initiatives reinforcing its continued dedication to the Indian market. Amongst these, the corporate introduced the commissioning of its Malaysia, India, Singapore Transit (MIST) submarine cable system by June 2025. MIST is an 8,100-kilometer cable that may carry over 200 terabits per second (Tbps). It is without doubt one of the largest cables in Asia, and can join Malaysia, India, Singapore and Thailand.

It marks a step as NTT DATA’s first cable system to ascertain direct connectivity to and from India, enhancing international connectivity and including important infrastructure for the nation’s quickly rising digital economic system. MIST was related to NTT DATA’s Mumbai touchdown station in February 2023 and its Chennai touchdown station in Could 2023.

NTT has been rising and investing in India for over a decade. Including to that, NTT DATA has now opened its largest knowledge centre campus in India, a facility that may maintain over 500 MW of energy, when totally operational. The corporate operates nearly two-thirds of its knowledge centres in India on renewable vitality. It’s dedicated to utilizing 100% renewable vitality by 2030 in all its knowledge centres and operations. That includes superior infrastructure, together with an underground tunnel for seamless connectivity and cooling applied sciences, the campus highlights security, innovation and sustainability.

Because the third-largest knowledge centre supplier globally, and the biggest in India, NTT DATA is scaling its international capability from over 1,500 MW to exceed 2,000 MW. With development in India, the place it holds market share, it goals so as to add 400 MW extra within the coming years. NTT DATA is the one knowledge centre service supplier with over 200 MW of synthetic intelligence (AI) load already deployed worldwide. Whereas the world is speaking about being AI-ready, NTT DATA is AI-experienced.

NTT DATA additionally introduced that it’s upgrading and increasing its Innovation Centre in Bengaluru, India. The centre will give attention to AI, digital twin and quantum computing tasks. With this, the corporate has 11 international innovation centres throughout 11 international locations that can enhance hiring of specialised expertise to handle tasks for international corporations, driving AI-led know-how options, significantly with agentic AI.

Devoted to boosting connectivity, NTT’s Optical and Wi-fi Community (IOWN), a next-generation All-Photonics Community (APN) know-how has been used to interconnect knowledge centres within the Mumbai area, facilitating increased efficiency knowledge transmission at decrease prices. IOWN’s first data and communication processing infrastructure in India is in its early implementation levels. It goals to supply quick, high-capacity community entry utilizing photonics-based applied sciences. NTT is working arduous to make this know-how accessible to organisations globally by 2030, with an purpose to assist the rising AI pushed international knowledge quantity which is prone to attain a capability of 175 zettabytes by 2025 – almost triple from 2020 to 2025, as per IDC’s ‘Information Age 2025’ paper. It elaborates – if we had been to retailer 175 zettabytes on DVDs, the stack of DVDs can be lengthy sufficient to circle Earth 222 occasions.

“India is essential in our international technique, fuelled by its speedy financial and digital growth. We’re proud to say that NTT DATA has powered the IT infrastructure in India and globally, notably in knowledge centre capability. Presently, India is one in all our prime 10 revenue-generating markets,” mentioned Akira Shimada, the president and CEO at NTT. “We’re investing 8 trillion Yen (US$59 billion) globally over 5 years from FY2023 to FY2027 into development areas, together with knowledge centres and AI. We’re dedicated to delivering our built-in full-stack proposition to our purchasers throughout Information Centres, Community, Functions, BPaaS, Managed Companies, Cloud, Safety and AI options.”

“We’re proud to speed up India’s digital future with the commissioning of MIST—the most recent milestone in strengthening international digital highways that join new markets and energy AI innovation. Our MIST cable touchdown on the Gateway of India, Mumbai really serves as India’s gateway to the world,” mentioned Abhijit Dubey, the CEO at NTT DATA, Inc. “Our USD 3 billion funding in India’s digital infrastructure over the past decade displays our confidence within the area’s distinctive expertise and strong tech ecosystem. We stay dedicated to increasing our presence and strategic investments within the nation that can elevate India to one in all our prime 5 markets inside the subsequent three years.” 

“The Indian economic system is at the moment in a development part each as a prime market and a hub of innovation, expertise and alternative,” mentioned Avinash Joshi, the CEO at NTT DATA in India. “Through the years we have now grown via acquisitions and at the moment have 3000 purchasers in India. We’ll proceed to construct on this momentum to drive transformation throughout key industries comparable to banking, manufacturing and automotive. We’re witnessing an period of evolutionary tech and are assured in our capacity to robustly meet the demand within the areas of know-how options, knowledge centres, infrastructure administration and functions.”

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