Crude oil prices are falling in 2026, but India’s AI data centres face a hidden cyber risk

One question deserves far more attention in India’s technology sector: what happens to the country’s artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and cybersecurity buildout if falling crude oil prices reverse later this year? Buried inside Standard Chartered’s latest macroeconomic view is a signal that every Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) planning a data centre expansion should watch closely. The same energy variable that is giving India more policy