AI Infrastructure
Techadyant Labs research on ai infrastructure in India — the dependencies, constraints and opportunity surfaces that decide the real outcome. 2 published · 1 forthcoming.
FreeWho Captures Computing When the Application Disappears?
The End of the Application Era — How Agentic AI Forces the First Operating-System Redesign Since the Cloud, and Where India Can Capture the Next LayerEvery fifteen-to-twenty years the operating system is redesigned, and agentic AI is the trigger for the next one. As work shifts from applications a human opens to goals an agent pursues, the three foundations of the modern OS — CPU-centric scheduling, human-login security and application-siloed state — break at once. This report argues that value migrates down from the application layer into four control primitives — accelerated inference, identity, memory and scheduling (AIMS) — and scores who is positioned to own them on a proprietary Agent-Native Capture Index (ANCI): in 2026 there is no Primitive Owner, and the leaders win on breadth, not depth. It maps the Post-Application Stack layer by layer, traces the hardware chokepoints (advanced packaging, HBM, export policy), and sets out where India — strong in public digital infrastructure and sovereign compute, dependent on the AIMS primitives — can capture the next layer rather than the last one. Eight parts, twenty-six chapters, eighteen figures and the PAS / AIMS / ANCI framework family. Free, and readable in full on this page.
FreeIndia’s AI Industrial Transition and Infrastructure Transformation
A strategic-intelligence map of compute, semiconductors, power, water, regional corridors, and the second-order industrial reshaping of IndiaA baseline architecture for India’s 2026–2035 AI industrial transition: ten anchor numbers, six theses, nine analytical frameworks, seven regional corridors, three scenarios, and eight failure-mode stress tests. The transition is treated as a re-layering of compute, semiconductors, power, water, fibre, real-estate and skilled labour — not as a workforce or careers story.
India’s AI Power Infrastructure Gap
India’s AI Power Infrastructure Gap
Why DC build-out is constrained by transmission, not generationIndia’s aggregate power picture is accommodating; the disaggregated picture is not. This report maps the local transmission and DISCOM-execution constraints that will set the realistic 4.5–9 GW DC ramp curve through 2030.
India has built or is building twelve semiconductor projects worth ₹1.65 lakh crore. None of them produces the chips that AI accelerators are made from — because the binding constraint is not the fab, it is advanced packaging.
The 71% concentration of India’s submarine-cable capacity at Mumbai and Chennai is the single largest geographic risk to Indian AI infrastructure. Visakhapatnam is the one project that materially diversifies it.
The unit of competition for India’s AI build-out is the corridor, not the state. Seven corridors are competing for the next decade of hyperscaler and semiconductor capital; their endowments and binding constraints differ sharply.
Not capital, not policy, not aggregate talent supply. The binding constraint on India’s 4.5–9 GW DC trajectory is local: transmission, water rights, fibre right-of-way and DISCOM-level interconnection-queue execution at the level of seven specific districts.
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