New Delhi, Feb 5 || Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha highlighted the critical bottleneck hindering India's ambitions in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, stressing that the primary constraint is not funding, capital, or talent but the availability of computational resources, particularly Graphics Processing Units or GPUs.
Chadha pointed out that rising GPU costs and global supply chain disruptions are severely limiting India's data centre expansion and efforts to train advanced AI models.
He noted that India's current pool of GPUs stands at approximately 34,000, a figure he described as very small compared to the scale required globally for developing cutting-edge AI systems.
Through the Chair, he sought specific details from the Minister of State for Science and Technology on the targets, timelines, and geopolitical engagements initiated by the government to ensure predictable and secure access to these vital computational resources.
In his response, Minister of State for Science and Technology (independent charge) Jitendra Singh acknowledged the concern as widely recognised, stating that GPUs form the core of AI development and related activities.