Really good piece by @davideoks on why China has grown richer and faster than India. I do agree with his thoughts (and remember a similar piece on South Korea v Kenya by @oliverwkim).
TLDR:
1/ China nuked its old social order and reorganised society around communist rule, and invested heavily in health + education. By 1980s when they liberalized its economy, it was "a socially modern country that just happened to be extremely poor". There was labour / human capital that factories could leverage, unbounded by past constraints.
2/ India on the other hand had never invested as heavily in human capital nor shifted its social order. So we havent been able to take advantage of the 1991 liberalization as much as China took advantage of Deng's easing of rules.
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India approved 139 data centres worth $10 billion in investment in the last 18 months. Total capacity under construction: 2.5 GW. This is not a tech story. This is an energy and real estate story.
A single hyperscale data centre consumes as much power as a small city. The 2.5 GW pipeline is equivalent to adding the power demand of three Jaipur-sized cities — just for data centres.
Adani, Reliance, Tata, CtrlS, NTT, Equinix — all building simultaneously across Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Noida. AWS, Google, and Microsoft have each committed over $5 billion to Indian cloud infrastructure. NVIDIA is backing Indian AI startups at seed stage.
Here is the problem nobody is solving fast enough: where does the power come from? India's grid is already at 95% peak utilisation in summer. Adding 2.5 GW of always-on data centre load requires either massive new generation capacity or dedicated renewable installations.
This is why the semiconductor and data centre stories are connected. India cannot be an AI power without reliable 24/7 power. The grid infrastructure bottleneck — not talent, not capital — will determine whether India becomes an AI hub or just an AI consumer.
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