February 2026 | 691 words | 2-minute read
Stepping into the centre of the Tata Pavilion at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 was akin to stepping into AI’s backstage — the part no one usually gets to see. The real infrastructure you need to realise the AI growth dividend. Silicon. Power. Compute. Sovereignty.
The 10,000 sq ft Tata AI Pavilion, themed ‘Accelerating India: AI‑Powered Bharat — Infrastructure to Intelligence’, offered a powerful overview of the Group’s commitment to building a full-stack AI ecosystem for the nation, starting with investments in foundational tech infrastructure. In the spotlight were the Tata Group’s semiconductor chip design and fabrication, high-density AI data centers and the green energy to power them, sovereign AI cloud and domain-specific AI models — or simply put the building blocks of an AI-enabled nation.
Designing AI Chips for the World
There is no AI without silicon. Semiconductors are no longer just components inside devices. They are the backbone of national capability, the foundation on which AI‑driven healthcare, smart mobility, digital education, agriculture, defense, and large‑scale public infrastructure will be built. This is where the Tata Group is playing a defining role by creating a semiconductor ecosystem that spans design, manufacturing, intelligence, talent and systems.
As AI workloads explode in size, complexity, and deployment diversity the future will belong to silicon that is custom designed for AI workloads. TCS is enabling this future by designing AI accelerators, neural processing units, and advanced custom System on Chips (SoCs).
But true semiconductor leadership also requires manufacturing, packaging, and systems capability.
This is where Tata Electronics — with India’s first AI-Enabled Semiconductor Fab, chips packaged in India for the world, India’s first Indeginous Semiconductor Assembly & Test Facility — finds its place in the core.
Together, TCS and Tata Electronics are creating a strategic end‑to‑end semiconductor value chain that allows the Tata Group to deliver not just silicon and systems at national scale but also competitiveness and strategic autonomy in an AI‑driven world.
AI Sovereignity
Globallly, while chip making is concentrated — and will continue to be so for a while — data centers will be regional, even national.
Speaking at the Tata AI Conclave Powered by CNBC TV18, on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit, N Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons, noted, “Data centers will come everywhere… because of the sovereignity question. Covid time and the whole geopolitical fragmentation created a similar situation for supply chain, so supply chains are now getting rebuilt nationally, regionally where resilience is overriding efficiency. In the AI world, privacy and sovereignity will override efficiency. It’s going to happen. So, you will find investments happening everywhere.”
TCS established HyperVault in 2025 with a vision to deliver gigawatt-scale secure, reliable, large-scale AI-ready infrastructure for hyperscalers and AI-driven organisations. The Tata Pavilion offered a peek into the company’s HyperVault future.
Bookending it in the Pavilion were Tata Power’s Green Energy for AI — “India’s AI era runs on power, every second, every day,” says the utility major — and Tata Communications’ Sovereign AI Cloud, Vayu, a next-gen Cloud fabric revolutionising enterprise IT.
AI’s Quiet Power Duo
As enterprises move beyond AI experimentation into large‑scale deployment, two capabilities are emerging as quiet power players. Domain Models are giving companies the advantage of depth: AI that speaks their industry language and embeds years of institutional expertise into every decision. Enterprise AI adoption is also being shaped by operating models and platforms that emphasise governance, security, and repeatability, all critical ingredients for accelarating adoption at scale. TCS is uniquely positioned in this landscape, advancing both the development of Domain Models and the enterprise‑grade AI frameworks needed to operationalise them.
TCS showcased its specialised domain models and TCS AI WisdomNext™, an industry-first GenAI aggregation platform
At the Tata Pavilion, the future of an AI‑powered nation stood assembled, block by block, in silicon, energy, compute and intelligence, ensuring that the AI decade is not only cutting‑edge, but also secure, sovereign and built in India, for the world.
- Monali Sarkar
