Cognizant has announced its plans to build a 14-acre Cognizant Immersive Learning Centre (CILC) at its Siruseri campus in Chennai. The new facility is expected to train 100,000 individuals annually in AI.
Set to be completed within three years, the learning centre will be equipped with 14,000 seats, smart classrooms, incubator hubs, design thinking centres, client experience spaces, and residential accommodations.
It will function as the primary hub supporting other training centres being set up across Cognizant’s campuses in Hyderabad, Pune, Kochi, and Coimbatore.
Ravi Kumar S, CEO, Cognizant, said “Our new state-of-the-art centres will power new skills and our culture of continuous learning, enabling our people to drive business impact for enterprises globally.”
As the central training hub for Cognizant’s school graduate program in India, the facility will also host intensive boot camps for fresh graduates. Additionally, it will serve as a collaborative space for technology partners, academia, and clients to engage in research and learning programs.
Cognizant says that the expansion in Chennai is part of its broader infrastructure growth in India. Since 2024, the company has launched new delivery centers in Bhubaneswar and Indore, with a techfin center set to open in GIFT City, Gujarat.
The company had plans to consolidate its Chennai operations into three of its own buildings located at Madras Export Processing Zone (MEPZ), Sholinganallur, and Siruseri, with headquarters relocating to the MEPZ campus near Tambaram by December 2024.
This comes when Cognizant sold its campus in Thoraipakkam on Chennai’s Old Mahabalipuram Road to Bagmane in a ₹612 crore deal, according to a report by The Hindustan Times.
Additionally, Cognizant has upgraded nearly one million square feet at its Hyderabad facility and modernized its Kolkata campus.
Cognizant has been ramping up its focus on AI and GenAI skills, training 277,000 employees in 2024 alone, with 168,000 completing a GenAI course. To date, over 220,000 associates have been upskilled in GenAI.
Cognizant reported full-year 2024 revenue of $19.736 billion, representing a 1.98% increase compared to the previous year.
This growth reverses the slight downward trend in 2023, when the company reported revenue of $19.353 billion, a marginal 0.39% decline from 2022 and a 4.9% revenue growth in 2022.
