Why Cognizant is Acquiring Astreya for US$600m

Cognizant has agreed to acquire Astreya, a technology provider specialising in AI infrastructure and data centre services.

The move, worth US$600m, according to Reuters, strengthens Cognizant’s position in AI infrastructure as hyperscaler and enterprise demand accelerates.

“Between 2025 and 2030, there is a projected US$6.7tn AI data centre infrastructure buildout currently reshaping the global technology landscape, with global capacity expected to double in five years,” says Ravi Kumar S, Cognizant CEO. “The five largest hyperscalers are expected to spend nearly US$700bn on infrastructure in 2026 alone.

“By acquiring Astreya and its proprietary AI tooling and production-grade infrastructure platform, which is complementary to Cognizant’s AI builder stack, we will be even better-positioned to help clients architect their platform-led AI systems and operationalise them at scale.”

The deal extends Cognizant’s recent push in AI and cloud, following expanded partnerships with Microsoft and Anthropic and the acquisition of 3Cloud to deepen Azure capabilities.

What Astreya brings

Astreya operates in more than 35 countries, with 25 years of industry experience and relationships with six of the “Magnificent Seven” hyperscalers.

As an operational managed service provider, it already supports data centre infrastructure, AI lab environments, enterprise networks and workplace technology.

Cognizant will gain Astreya’s proprietary AI OpsHub platform, which provides automation, agentic capabilities and readiness assessment and analysis. Astreya’s client AI solutions, along with partnerships with Google Cloud Platform and ServiceNow, become key assets for Cognizant.

“Astreya has redefined what it means to be a trusted partner in the AI era, embedding intelligence into every solution, without losing the human connection that drives real results,” comments Romil Bahl, President and CEO at Astreya.

“Joining Cognizant is the natural next chapter for the Astreya global team and importantly, the clients who have trusted us to operate their most critical technology environments. We have spent the last several years making deliberate, disciplined investments in AI: building platforms, training specialists and fundamentally redesigning how managed services are delivered. We look forward to attacking the AI infrastructure era as a part of Cognizant.”

Economic impact and AI builder shift

Surya Gummadi, President of Cognizant Americas, contends that AI data centre investment is a "critical path for future economic and job growth" – especially in the US.

He continues: "[Hyperscaler] capital spending is now nearing US$400bn annually, with each direct data centre job supporting more than six jobs elsewhere in the economy.

"Effective and credible scaling of AI infrastructure, including data centres, requires deep context and AI builder expertise.

“We expect the acquisition of Astreya will meaningfully expand Cognizant’s AI Infrastructure capabilities and enhance our powerful ‘Magnificent Seven’ hyperscaler relationships.”

With the deal, Cognizant is positioning itself as an AI builder focused on operationalising platform-led AI systems at scale. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026.