Adani Group Chairperson, , on Monday advocated for made in India.
“India must not rent the infrastructure of its intelligence future. India must build it. India must power it. India must own it on its own soil,” Adani said while addressing a CII Annual Business summit here.
He said the intelligence age will not be built only by servers, chips and algorithms. It will be built by electricians, technicians, operators, safety officers, cooling engineers, grid managers, data centre teams and millions of young Indians who will maintain the physical infrastructure behind the digital world.
“Through the Adani Foundation, we have made a long-term commitment of ₹60,000 crore towards education, healthcare, skilling and community development. A growing share of this effort is being directed towards AI integrated skilling,” he said.
Talking about building India’s AI spine he said the real measure of AI will not be how many jobs it replaces. The real measure will be how many Indians it empowers. Giving an example of his own journey, he said he has spent his life constructing things that did not yet exist, in places that were not yet ready. Ports where there were only marsh-lands. Power in places that knew only darkness. Infrastructure where many saw only impossibility.
“And if there is one lesson I have learned, it is this — The future does not arrive. It is built. So, let us build,” Adani said.
He urged this to be built for the who has always known his land, but never had the tools to fully read it. This needs to be built for the nurse who has always had the instinct, but never had the instruments. This needs to be built for the teacher in a school without a library, who may soon have the world’s knowledge in her hands. This needs to be built for the small manufacturer who has skill, but needs intelligence to compete globally.
“These are the people of Bharat that AI must serve. The next freedom struggle will not be fought only at our borders. It will be fought in our grids, our data centres, our factories, our classrooms, our laboratories and our minds. And this time, freedom will mean capability,” he said, while explaining the capability to power, to compute and to dream for “ourselves”.
“It begins here. It begins now. And it begins with us,” he concluded.