Many netizens commented that they miss my goddess Palki Sharma and said this video series must continue. Indeed, I have been focusing on AI technology recently, conducting extensive tests on cloud and local deployments to ensure I stay technically up to date. My goddess and I share something in common: she has also been covering AI-related topics lately, but as always, she is spouting nonsense. Let us enjoy her clumsy performance together and then, in a cheerful atmosphere, debunk her lies and foolishness.
She released a video claiming that US AI tech giants Microsoft and Amazon are heavily investing in India’s AI infrastructure, with investments exceeding $52 billion. Combined with Google’s pledged $15 billion, a total of over $67.5 billion in massive funds will flow into India’s AI infrastructure construction in the future.
Palki proudly announced that India has 1 billion mobile users who speak different languages and follow diverse cultures, making India the ultimate testing ground for AI models. AI that passes India’s tests is powerful and can go global. The Modi government launched an $8 billion semiconductor plan and integrated AI into public services, creating an environment friendly to AI technology. US tech companies are cautious about investing in China, so they view India as a safe bet. As a democratic country, India has a large number of English-speaking engineers and a huge market, making it an ideal investment destination.
The investments from US giants bring India jobs and strategic advantages. Microsoft pledged to provide AI skills training to 20 million Indians by 2030, and Amazon has supported 2.8 million direct and indirect jobs. Microsoft also offers sovereign cloud services, allowing Indian customers’ data to be stored locally in India, enhancing India’s data sovereignty and making India part of the global AI supply chain, thus gaining greater geopolitical influence.
I must clarify that in most of my previous videos, I criticized Palki’s biased news reporting, saying she is malicious, knows the truth, but lies for profit, deceiving her audience. However, in this video, I do not think Palki is malicious; she is simply foolish. She has no idea what she is talking about. She and her team know nothing about AI, yet they speak with great authority.
First, AI giants are investing in India’s infrastructure for one purpose: to control India’s AI industry. India has 1 billion mobile users, but they can connect to US data centers via the internet, which is not much different from connecting to local Indian ones. US tech giants do not need to go to India to collect their data. India has no influential internet platforms and relies entirely on US products. Even Palki’s show is stored on YouTube. Google builds data centers and network services in India to gain an infrastructure advantage over local companies, making it impossible for Indian businesses to compete with Google’s powerful data centers when developing similar services. Other companies developing internet video businesses will choose Google’s infrastructure services, becoming tied to the YouTube ecosystem. This is also the fundamental reason Microsoft and Amazon are investing in India’s infrastructure: it is a land grab. Indian local companies could have built cheaper, lower-performance data centers and used open-source AI models to set up AI servers, laying the foundation for India’s own AI services. However, after US tech giants build high-standard data centers in India, these innovative local companies cannot compete. They can choose to use US companies’ data centers, but after paying rental costs, they lack the resources to challenge these giants’ AI services and can only develop AI applications based on their services. India’s AI industry will be firmly controlled by US tech giants.
Second, Palki never misses a chance to boast about the Modi government, talking about an $8 billion semiconductor plan and integrating AI into public services. She may not understand what $8 billion means in the semiconductor industry. This amount is negligible, like a beggar’s budget, and will have no impact. China’s central government’s third-phase chip fund invested 3440 billion yuan, about $50 billion, with local governments and companies investing a total of 1.5 trillion yuan, equivalent to over $200 billion. Huawei’s R&D spending in 2024 alone was 1800 billion yuan, about $25 billion, and over the past decade, Huawei’s R&D investment neared $200 billion. The Indian government plans to invest $8 billion, spread over time, to kickstart the chip industry. With this amount, are you developing cow-dung chips?
Third, Palki said US tech giants do not invest in AI in China because China is not a democratic country, while India is a free democratic society and trustworthy. Then why is Apple heavily investing in China? The so-called sovereign cloud you mentioned has a classic example: Apple stores Chinese users’ data in Guizhou, China. Microsoft, Tesla, General Motors, Ford, and other US companies have significant investments in China. Companies invest in a country primarily for profit, not because of democracy or dictatorship. US tech giants invest in AI in India because India has no AI industry and cannot resist US technology. As long as US companies grab land in India, they can lock you into a digital cage, turning you into American sheep. But in China, there are DeepSeek, Alibaba, ByteDance, Huawei, Tencent, and many other well-known companies. China’s DeepSeek, Qwen, Doubao, and others are world-class AI models. If they come to China, they face better infrastructure than in the US and top-tier AI talent. How can they compete with Chinese companies?
Next, let us discuss the benefits Palki brags about India gaining from these deals. First is jobs and skills improvement. I believe Microsoft’s promise to provide AI skills training to 20 million Indians by 2030, training them to use Microsoft’s AI services and become Microsoft’s customers. Amazon has supported 2.8 million direct and indirect jobs. Of course, you deliver packages for Amazon, maintain servers, and use Amazon’s platform ecosystem to help it make money, so Amazon is delighted. However, this also means your local companies’ innovation space in e-commerce, cloud computing, and AI is greatly squeezed. This is a double-edged sword. Small countries can rely on big countries’ services, but if you want to become a superpower like China or the US, this path is definitely wrong. The ceiling of this path is becoming an economic colony of the US.
As for the sovereign cloud, with data staying in India, making India part of the global AI supply chain, I agree. But Microsoft can integrate your data into trained models and transfer them to the US without your knowledge. Your local companies can access Microsoft’s collected data, but they have to pay, and it might be expensive. India becomes part of the global AI supply chain? Sure, but you are only service consumers and data providers, unable to master any core technology. If one day the US decides to sanction India, it can instantly shut down your internet and AI services.
As a country with 1.4 billion people, facing proposals from US companies, I think only a brain-dead leader would agree. But Modi not only lacks vigilance, he lets BJP media widely report it, flaunting it as political capital. This confirms my earlier judgment: Modi, his colleagues, and BJP media are extremely foolish, lacking the most basic understanding of the world. Yet they can stably rule India. What is the reason? I welcome your opinions in the comments. I believe most viewers of my channel can provide accurate answers.