Mumbai: Facebook-parent
Meta and Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries have announced a deal to
develop an AI-enabled data centre in Gujarat's Jamnagar district, as technology
giants race to expand computing capacity for generative AI services in the
world's fastest-growing major economy.
Reliance
will develop a 168-megawatt data centre to be delivered within two years, while
Meta will lease capacity from the facility, the companies said in a joint statement.
Financial details were not disclosed.
Meta
chief Mark Zuckerberg said it was "proud" to partner with Reliance on
its "first AI-enabled data centre in India." Reliance chairman Mukesh
Ambani described the announcement as India's "first built-to-suit data
centre for a global technology leader of Meta's scale."
India, home to more than a billion internet users, has seen a wave of investment announcements from global and domestic firms seeking to tap rising demand for cloud computing, AI, and data storage. Last week, Australian data centre operator AirTrunk said it would invest $30 billion in India by 2030 to develop five gigawatts of data centre capacity.
