Govt Likely to Open Bids for 12,000–15,000 Nvidia GPUs Under IndiaAI Mission

The Union government is expected to soon open a fresh round of bidding to onboard around 12,000–15,000 high-end graphic processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia as part of its push to strengthen national artificial intelligence infrastructure under the IndiaAI Mission, according to official sources.

The proposed procurement will focus on Nvidia’s B100 and B200 GPUs, which are built on the company’s latest Blackwell architecture and are designed to handle large-scale AI training and advanced computing workloads.

Officials indicated that a new bidding process will be required to discover updated L1 prices for these next-generation GPUs. Meanwhile, GPUs that were finalised in the earlier bidding round will continue to be onboarded at the prices already discovered.

Once the new batch of GPUs is added under the mission, India’s total AI computing capacity is expected to cross 50,000 GPUs, significantly enhancing the country’s ability to support research, startups, academia, and enterprise-scale AI applications.

Strengthening India’s AI backbone

The expanded GPU procurement is part of the government’s broader strategy to build a shared, high-performance AI compute ecosystem. By making cutting-edge hardware accessible through a national platform, the initiative aims to reduce dependence on overseas infrastructure and accelerate domestic innovation in areas such as generative AI, language models, healthcare analytics, climate modelling, and smart governance. The Blackwell-based GPUs are among the most advanced accelerators currently available, offering higher performance and energy efficiency compared to previous architectures—an important factor as India scales up its AI ambitions.