The Data-AI Nexus: Fueling India’s Economic Surge

By Arvind Subramanian, Executive Vice President, Managing Director for India at Iron Mountain

India is in the midst of a digital revolution, with data and AI poised to inject a staggering $450-$500 billion into its GDP by the end of 2025. While AI is rapidly transforming industries through automation and insight generation, its efficacy hinges entirely on the quality and relevance of the data it consumes.

Historically, structured data has been the bedrock of analytics. Now many organizations are grappling with an explosion of unstructured data emails, social media, images, audio, and video that according to Gartner, constitutes 80-90% of all new enterprise data and is growing at an unprecedented rate. Adding to this complexity, invaluable information often remains trapped in physical formats, awaiting digitization. The consequences of poor data integrity are stark: a recent Iron Mountain report, in partnership with FT Longitude, revealed that large organizations globally lost ...