New Delhi: We call this the impact of AI. As world IT leaders, French President Emmanuel Macron and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gather for the AI Summit, hotel room rates have soared to 5.5 million rupees per night, with suites at the capital’s top hotels costing 30 million rupees.NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are also scheduled to visit the capital. So far, 1.5 million people, including over 10,000 foreign delegates, have registered for the AI Impact Summit 2026, which will be held at the Bharat Mandapam as the main venue. On the key dates of February 19 and 20, the last few rooms fetched prices as high as Rs 5.5 million per night. Hotels like Maurya, Taj Mahal & Palace, Leela, Oberoi, Imperial and JW Marriott are sold out. Some hotels in Aerocity come with price tags of over Rs 50,000 per night.Recommendation is issued because the exam schedule overlaps with the summit.Finding hotel rooms wasn’t much of a problem for organizers, who had blocked off 250 to 300 rooms months in advance. The event coincides with the board exams, which begin on February 17th, and they are working on another challenge. The biggest worries are February 19, when class XII engineering graphics and cost accounting exams are scheduled, and February 20, when class XII students are scheduled to write physics exams.Officials said organizers are working to raise awareness by reaching out to students who live around the main venue or have centers nearby. Warnings have been issued on other days as well.Security will be tight in central Delhi, with the prime ministers of the Netherlands, Finland and Estonia, as well as British Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy and the prime ministers of Sweden and South Korea, also in the city.The Ministry of Information Technology, which organizes the summit, also said its venue arrangements were focused on participant comfort and sustainability, not just food and water security.
