New Delhi, Feb. 5 -- India is positioning itself to emerge as a global hub for artificial intelligence inferencing, leveraging recent Union Budget measures to expand data centre capacity and attract large-scale investments from global technology companies, a senior government official said on Thursday.

"India has the potential to become the data centre capital of the world and, more importantly, the inferencing capital of the world, where a significant share of global AI inferencing work can be carried out," Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Chief Executive Officer of IndiaAI, said while addressing a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) conference on AI for equita...