Overview
- Satya Nadella announced the plan after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and thanked him in a post on X.
- This commitment builds on Microsoft’s earlier $3 billion pledge that the company says it will finish deploying by the end of 2026.
- Microsoft will open the India South Central cloud region in Hyderabad with three availability zones and will expand existing regions in Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune.
- The company has doubled its AI skilling target to 20 million people by 2030, reporting 5.6 million trained since January 2025.
- Microsoft will offer sovereign cloud options and will add AI features to the e-Shram and National Career Service platforms to reach more than 310 million informal workers.