India’s AI boom needs more than code—It needs copper

In this age of artificial intelligence, data is not merely the new oil; it defines its new sovereignty. For India, a nation of 1.4 billion people generating voluminous digital footprints, the question of where that data lives, who controls it, and under whose legal jurisdiction it resides has ceased to be a matter of policy [...] The post India’s AI boom needs more than code—It needs copper first appeared on ET Edge Insights .