New Delhi, May 8, (CXO Media): IBM and Yotta Data Services are building a new India-hosted agentic AI platform as companies increasingly look for local AI infrastructure that complies with data localisation and regulatory requirements.
The platform will combine IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate with Yotta’s Shakti Cloud, allowing enterprises and government organisations to deploy autonomous AI agents across finance, HR, customer support and IT operations while keeping workloads hosted inside India.
The announcement comes at a time when Indian firms are sharply increasing investments in sovereign AI infrastructure, AI data centres and enterprise automation. CIOs are now prioritising secure AI deployment, governance and locally hosted cloud systems as businesses move beyond pilot generative AI projects.
Yotta has recently expanded its AI infrastructure plans with NVIDIA and announced plans to deploy more than 20,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs on Shakti Cloud. The company is also working with the government-backed BHASHINI initiative to support multilingual AI models and large-scale public AI deployment.
IBM will additionally bring its Sovereign Core platform to Yotta’s infrastructure stack to support compliance monitoring, governed AI execution and secure enterprise AI environments.
The partnership highlights how India’s AI infrastructure market is becoming a key battleground for global technology companies, cloud providers and data centre operators as enterprises seek locally hosted alternatives for large-scale AI deployment.
