NEW DELHI, Dec. 5 -- Microsoft will keep investing in artificial intelligence-ready data centre infrastructure in India beyond 2026, and continue hiring artificial intelligence (AI) engineers to build value-added solutions, the company's top India executive said.

"As part of our $3 billion investment plan through this year and the next, our Hyderabad data centre-one of the largest in the region-is set to go live by June 2026. This will add to our data centre hubs in Mumbai, Pune and Chennai, as well as two Jio-Azure regions (with Reliance Industries) in Maharashtra and Gujarat," said Puneet Chandok, president of Microsoft India and South Asia. "All our data centres are AI-ready, and this is where we've invested so far. But, our investmen...