Airtel bats for sovereign stack to process data from India

Bharti Airtel has questioned the fragmented approach in current rules to allow data processing of Indians overseas and has pushed for control on local data using sovereign cloud, a senior company official has said. Speaking at Global Fintech Fest 2026, Bharti Airtel, Group CRO and Director of Corporate Affairs, Rahul Vatts said it is not correct to equate local data residency with data sovereignty but it is about controlling the data with a sovereign technology stack.