New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- India's second-largest telecom services provider Bharti Airtel will steer clear of offering graphics processing unit or GPU-as-a-service in the near term and, instead, look at scaling up its data centres, vice-chairman and managing director Gopal Vittal said in the third-quarter earnings call on Friday.

as-a-service, we have currently decided to park that because things are changing very fast in that space, the cost of the quality of the chips and the efficiency of the chips. Also, the money that you make on GPU-as-a-service, a lot of it is dependent on sophisticated work around how you manage those workloads," Vittal said, giving the rationale behind the company's decision.

"We've done multiple workshops to really ...