New Delhi, Dec. 29 -- India's AI narrative has largely been shaped by models, data, and startup momentum. But as artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to mission-critical deployment, a more fundamental constraint is coming into view: compute infrastructure.

High-performance servers, AI clusters, and private cloud systems now determine how securely, independently, and at what scale AI can be deployed. For a country that generates massive volumes of data but remains dependent on imported systems, compute is no longer a backend concern. It is a strategic capability.

In this conversation with CiOL, SwastikChakraborty, Vice President of Technology, Netweb Technologies, explains what sovereign compute means in practice, where Ind...