🗺 **Bessemer Maps India's 'Swaraj Stack' — A Six-Layer Bet on AI Self-Reliance**

• Bessemer lays out a six-layer roadmap (energy, compute, data, models, infra software, applications) for India's push toward AI and tech self-reliance.
• India's power capacity (~**520 GW**) is projected to nearly double to **1,121 GW** by 2035-36, with datacenter capex seen hitting **$20-25B** by 2030.
• Indic languages make up just **~1%** of Common Crawl training data despite India being 18% of world population — a key gap for sovereign AI models.
• UPI already processes **22B+** transactions per month, underscoring the scale of India's digital-infrastructure base.

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