Five IndiaAI Mission-empanelled cloud providers lack data centres, barred from compute tender
kingslyj · x · 2026-11-12
Five cloud service providers empanelled under India's IndiaAI Mission are ineligible to bid for the government's latest request for empanelment (RFE) to procure compute, ETtech reports — because they do not operate a data centre in India. Commenters mocked the episode as another embarrassing "Digital India" moment, noting that government-certified cloud providers lacked even basic data centre operations.
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