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Jeet Adani, Adani Group at AI Impact Summit
India’s Intelligence Century:
Sovereignty, Scale and National Renewal
Distinguished global leaders, innovators and friends – Good Afternoon & Namaste.
We gather here today at a decisive inflexion point in history, and it is indeed a privilege to have the opportunity to speak to this audience that is reshaping our world.
If you really look at it through history
# Electricity-powered industry.
# Oil reshaped geopolitics.
# Internet transformed commerce….
And today, AI is going to redefine sovereignty.
The central question before our country, India, is not whether we will adopt AI.
The questions are:
# Will India import intelligence – or architect it?
# Will we consume productivity – or create it?
# Will we plug into someone else’s system – or build the system?
The time for asking this is over now.
Because, as my country, India, rises, she does not rise to dominate.
# She rises to stabilise.
# She rises to anchor a world searching for balance.
# She rises to build inclusive, enduring systems.
And, when India builds technology, she does not build for exclusion or control – she builds for inclusion.
But, in this geopolitically charged century, I believe that:
# Inclusion without capability is a weakness. And
# Capability without sovereignty is foreign dependence.
So today, I want to speak about three pillars of sovereignty that we believe will define India’s AI century:
First. Energy Sovereignty
Second. Compute and Cloud Sovereignty
Third. Services Sovereignty
These are not technical abstractions.
They are the foundations of modern nationalism.
Pillar One: Energy Sovereignty Is Intelligence Sovereignty
AI is written in code.
But it runs on electricity.
As we know, under peak load, advanced processors generate extraordinary heat. Systems throttle when power falters. Performance drops.
This is not just an engineering detail. It is a strategic truth.
If a nation’s energy systems are fragile, its intelligence systems are fragile.
In today’s AI era, power grids and data grids become inseparable.
This means India’s renewable expansion – solar, wind, storage – is no longer just climate policy. It is a strategic infrastructure policy.
Energy security is going to be equivalent to intelligence security.
And sustainable energy becomes a competitive advantage.
So, what will be different in India because of this?
# Renewable clusters will co-locate with AI data centres.
# Industrial corridors will integrate energy and compute planning.
# Storage and grid stability will become national priorities.
The Second Pillar: Compute and Cloud Sovereignty
If energy is the fuel, compute is the factory.
In earlier centuries, nations built steel plants and shipyards.
In the digital age, nations invested in semiconductor ecosystems.
In today’s AI age, sovereign compute capacity becomes strategic infrastructure.
It matters:
# Where compute resides.
# Under whose jurisdiction does it operate?
# Who controls access?
Cloud sovereignty does not mean isolation. It means autonomy.
# It means India must host critical AI workloads domestically.
# It means we build data centre ecosystems at scale.
# It means domestic access to high-performance computing for our startups, academia, defence, healthcare, and manufacturing.
If the intelligence infrastructure is concentrated externally,
# Strategic leverage concentrates externally. And…
# External concentration creates national fragility.
In earlier centuries, nations have built navies to secure trade routes.
Today, we build sovereign compute to secure intelligence routes.
And finally, Pillar Three: Services Sovereignty for Retaining India’s AI Dividend
We all know that India’s IT revolution made us a global digital services powerhouse. But much of the productivity dividend accrued – not in our nation – but elsewhere.
The AI revolution gives India a once-in-a-century opportunity to change that equation.
Our AI must first amplify our Indian productivity:
# Enhance our agricultural resilience.
# Personalise our education at a massive scale.
# Optimise our networks of logistics and ports.
# Improve our energy and distribution efficiency.
# Modernise our manufacturing competitiveness.
# Expand our healthcare diagnostics across rural India.
# Deepen our financial inclusion across Tier 2/3 towns & villages
AI must become a force multiplier for Indian citizens before it becomes a margin multiplier for others.
This is not protectionism.
This is preparedness.
This is not isolation.
This is strategic maturity.
Earlier this week, the Chairman of the Adani Group and my father, Shri Gautam Adani, made one of the most transformative announcements in India’s technology history when he said that the Adani Group would invest 100 billion dollars to build a sovereign, green-energy-powered AI infrastructure platform for the nation.
This is not just a data centre expansion. It is the trigger for a 5-gigawatt, 250 billion dollar integrated energy-and-compute ecosystem engineered to anchor India’s Intelligence Revolution.
It signals a decisive shift:
# from importing intelligence to architecting it.
# from consuming AI to creating it.
By integrating renewable energy, grid resilience, and hyperscale compute into a unified architecture, this commitment ensures that India’s AI future is not only powered but secured, sovereign, and built at a national scale.
I stand here today as a citizen of the new India.
I belong to a generation that did not have to fight for freedom. We received it as a gift secured by sacrifice. But history does not reward inheritance. It rewards guardianship.
Our responsibility is no longer to win freedom. It is:
# To strengthen it.
# To secure it. And
# To defend it
his is modern nationalism at its highest form:
# Capability over rhetoric.
# Resilience over vulnerability.
# Execution over entitlement.
The question is no longer whether India will participate in the AI century. The question is whether the AI century will carry India’s imprint in its infrastructure, with her intelligence, with her standards, and most importantly – with her values.
I believe – deeply and without hesitation – that she will.
Because when India rises, she does not rise to dominate.
# She rises to stabilise.
# She rises to build.
# She rises to include.
And this century will remember that.
