At New Delhi’s AI Impact Summit 2026, Jeet Adani, key figure at Adani Airport Holdings, painted an ambitious picture Thursday: India imposing its intellect, norms, and ethos on the AI-dominated century ahead.
Drawing lessons from the IT revolution that crowned India a global tech services leader, Adani lamented the value leakage overseas. AI’s arrival, he said, equips India with a historic pivot to internalize those riches.
The gathering marked a watershed, Adani said, as AI forces a sovereignty overhaul. India must decide: buy foreign brains or birth its own? Use tools or toolmake? Join networks or network-build?
He detailed sovereignty’s trio of pillars shaping India’s AI narrative: energy mastery, compute/cloud control, and service autonomy. Framing them as modern nationalism’s cornerstones, Adani urged immediate action.
AI thrives or falters on energy reliability, with grids now symbiotic. India’s renewables ramp-up – spanning solar, wind, storage – shifts from climate goal to security doctrine. ‘Power security mirrors AI security; sustainability fuels victory,’ he projected.
Empower citizens domestically before global plays, Adani advised. He hailed the Adani Group’s $100 billion sovereign green AI infrastructure vow, announced by Gautam Adani days ago.
This transformative venture crafts a 5 GW, $250 billion energy-compute fusion, igniting India’s intelligence surge. Integrating renewables, resilient grids, and vast computing, it promises an AI landscape that’s energized, safeguarded, sovereign, and made-in-India.