Yotta Spark - Edition 1

This edition of Yotta Sparks highlights a season of remarkable momentum, marked by award-winning leadership, platform launches, global expansion, and participation at high-impact national forums. From unveiling Shakti Studio, our next-generation AI inference platform, to advancing green compute infrastructure beyond India, and engaging in national Pre-Budget Consultations with Hon’ble Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman to shape India’s AI and compute priorities - Yotta continues to accelerate the future of sovereign, accessible, and responsible AI.

Yotta Wins Big at Cloud & Datacenter Awards

Sunil Gupta, Co-founder, MD & CEO, Yotta, was honoured as the Winner – Hyperscale Infrastructure Leader at the South Asia Cloud & Datacenter Awards 2025, recognizing his contributions to India’s AI and data center ecosystem.

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Rajesh Garg, President & Group CIO, Yotta, received the Critical Digital Infrastructure Index Award, celebrating his leadership in advancing secure, resilient, and scalable digital operations.

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Launch Spotlight: Shakti Studio – AI Made Simple, Fast, and Accessible

On October 07, 2025, Yotta unveiled Shakti Studio, an all-in-one AI inference platform designed to make enterprise AI effortless - from prototype to production. Built on the foundation of serverless GPUs, model fine-tuning, and ready-to-use endpoints for language, vision, and speech, Shakti Studio empowers everyone - from startups experimenting with their first model to large enterprises scaling complex AI workloads. What sets Shakti Studio apart is its balance of developer simplicity and enterprise-grade reliability. With automated infrastructure management, instant scalability, and low-latency inference, it allows innovators to focus purely on outcomes - not on orchestration.

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Global Expansion: Building Tajikistan’s First Green AI Data Center

In a groundbreaking move, darya.ai Ltd, Tajikistan’s leader in sustainable AI infrastructure, and Yotta signed a strategic collaboration agreement to develop Tajikistan’s first green AI data center in Darvoz. This initiative lays the foundation for the nation’s AI infrastructure strategy, aligning with Tajikistan’s ambition to derive 5% of its GDP from AI by 2040. The collaboration combines darya.ai’s sustainable infrastructure expertise with Yotta’s high-density, energy-efficient data center and sovereign AI cloud experience, creating a scalable, low-carbon compute ecosystem. The MoU was signed during AI CONF 2025 marking a milestone in Yotta’s expanding global footprint.

The Round Up

Yotta continued to strengthen its leadership presence across major national and global platforms. Sunil Gupta participated in the national Pre-Budget Consultations with the Hon’ble Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as the representative from India’s sovereign AI & Cloud infrastructure industry, presenting critical recommendations to advance the nation’s AI and compute ecosystem. Yotta also joined global cloud leaders at the CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Milan, contributing to discussions shaping the future of open-cloud and AI-driven infrastructure. Alongside NVIDIA, Yotta hosted the AI Future Roundtable focused on accelerating sovereign AI compute and GPU innovation. Yotta further engaged industry audiences at the VFX Summit, True Search Data Center Leadership Roundtable and Cloud & DataCenter Convention & Awards 2025, showcasing innovations in cloud-based media technologies and sharing insights on India’s next phase of data center growth.

Industry & Market Watch

Baidu Launches AI Chips to Boost China’s Self-Reliant Computing Power	Google Unveils Project Suncatcher to Build Space-Based AI Network
Baidu unveiled two new AI processors and supercomputing “supernode” products designed to give Chinese companies affordable, domestically controlled alternatives to restricted U.S. chips. The new M100 and M300 chips - focused on inference and combined training-inference respectively - will roll out between 2026 and 2027	Google’s Project Suncatcher explores solar-powered satellites equipped with TPUs to create a scalable AI compute infrastructure in space, advancing sustainable global intelligence systems.

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MeitY Notifies DPDP Rules 2025, India’s First Full-Fledged Data Protection Law Goes Live	Inside India’s Digital Backbone: Yotta D1 in Focus
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has notified the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules 2025, marking the full operationalisation of the DPDP Act, 2023 - India’s first comprehensive digital data law.	Yotta gained strong visibility for its Noida D1 data center, with Sunil Gupta highlighting the industry’s reliance on city power grids and efforts to ensure reliable uptime. Read more.

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Simplismart–Yotta Alliance Elevates India’s AI Capabilities	How Yotta is powering India's AI revolution with NVIDIA GPUs, AI Labs, data centers
This partnership is a major step in enhancing India’s AI infrastructure. Simplismart’s inference-first platform underpins Shakti Studio’s serverless inference layer, ensuring real-time performance and low latency for large language models (LLMs). Read more.	In a freewheeling discussion with Fortune India's Manoj Sharma, Yotta's CEO Sunil Gupta talks about his company's bold bets on GPUs, large-scale data centre capabilities, his views on digital sovereignty, vertical-specific AI solutions. Read more.

The Spotlight

India’s GPU Moment: Yotta’s Founder on Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure | AIM Tech Talks

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