Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What this changes for builders The capacity is real now — India's common compute pool has crossed 34,381 GPUs onboarded from 14 empanelled service providers, not a press-release promise. The rate is genuinely cheap — about ₹65 per GPU-hour on average; roughly ₹92 for an H100. That undercuts global cloud list pricing by around 70%. The subsidy stacks — eligible projects can claim up to a 40% cost reduction, pushing approved national-importance work below ₹100 per GPU-hour. It is not self-serve — access runs through the IndiaAI Compute Portal as a registration-and-approval process. Plan for a proposal and a wait, not a credit-card checkout. The lesson is global — subsidised sovereign compute is now a pattern across India, the UK and beyond. If you build anywhere, this is worth…
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