<h1>Microsoft deepens investment in India's AI infrastructure, data sovereignty and large-scale Copilot deployments and commits to skilling millions.</h1> Microsoft is expanding AI infrastructure in India with a USD 17.5 billion investment to grow cloud and data centre capacity, introduce a fully sustainable south central data centre region in 2026, and provide sovereign controls within the public cloud while coupling sovereignty with global cybersecurity intelligence. The company has partnered with four major IT firms to deploy over 50,000 Copilot licenses each-surpassing 200,000 collectively-to drive agentic AI adoption across enterprise functions, and pledged to skill 20 million Indians in AI competencies.