India, Jan. 31 -- Indian data centre infrastructure providers say the emergence of China's low-cost artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek is expected to increase the need for more data centres rather than reduce demand.

A data centre is a facility that organizations use to house their critical applications and data.

On January 30, the government said DeepSeek, an open-source model, would soon be hosted on Indian servers to address data security and privacy concerns over the Chinese AI platform.

The Chinese company DeepSeek has been making headlines after its AI model R1 overtook ChatGPT as the top-ranked free app on Apple's Appstore, challenging the AI dominance concentrated so far with the US firms.

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