India’s First Built-to-Suit Data Centre for Meta: Reliance Signs Pact to Build 168 MW AI-Enabled Hub in Gujarat
Meta will lease the 168-megawatt facility and contract 837 MW of renewable energy as India draws major tech investment.
- Meta Platforms Inc. is partnering with Reliance Industries Ltd. to build a 168-megawatt AI-enabled data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat, marking the firm's first major AI infrastructure bet in India.
- This collaboration builds on a relationship beginning around 2020, when Meta invested $5.7 billion in Jio Platforms; both companies have since explored opportunities in enterprise AI and digital services.
- To ensure sustainability, the Jamnagar facility will be powered by renewable energy and cooled using desalinated seawater, with Meta covering the full cost and securing 1 gigawatt of clean energy capacity.
- Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani stated the agreement demonstrates India's growing importance in the global AI ecosystem, with the facility integrating the country into Meta's worldwide AI network.
- With major firms like Amazon and Microsoft investing $52 billion this year, India is rapidly expanding its data center footprint; industry estimates project capacity could grow from about 1.5 gigawatts to over 8 gigawatts by the decade's end.
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Weeks after cutting 8,000 jobs to fund its artificial intelligence ambitions, Meta Platforms is planting its first AI data centre in India. It's a 168-megawatt facility to be built by Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries at the conglomerate's sprawling industrial campus in Jamnagar, Gujarat. The partnership, announced on 10 June, deepens a relationship that stretches back to 2020, when Meta invested $5.7 billion (£4.5 billion) in Reliance's telec…
Meta Leases First India AI Data Center From Reliance as Ambani Bets $110 Billion on Compute Power
Meta Platforms struck a deal Wednesday to lease a 168-megawatt AI-ready data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Reliance Industries will build and operate the facility. The agreement marks Meta’s first custom-built data center on Indian soil. The news comes as Mukesh Ambani’s conglomerate accelerates plans to spend roughly $110 billion on AI infrastructure over seven years. Construction has already started on multi-gigawatt facilities in Jamnagar. Mor…
Meta strikes its first India data-centre deal with Reliance
Meta has agreed to lease a 168-megawatt, AI-ready data centre in India from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, its first such facility in the country. Reliance will build the site in Jamnagar, Gujarat, and Meta will lease it with an option to scale, the companies said on Tuesday. “This world-class facility in Jamnagar will help us […] This story continues at The Next Web
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