Meta has announced its first AI infrastructure investment in India, partnering with conglomerate Reliance Industries to develop a 168-megawatt AI-enabled data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat, powered by renewable energy and cooled using desalinated seawater.
The facility, expected to be operational within two years, will support Meta’s global AI computing requirements and expands a relationship dating to the company’s $5.7 billion investment in Reliance’s Jio Platforms in 2020. The two companies launched a $100 million joint venture last year to develop enterprise AI solutions for Indian and overseas markets.
Meta separately contracted nearly one gigawatt of renewable energy capacity in India through agreements with CleanMax and Fourth Partner Energy. Financial terms of the data center agreement were not disclosed.
The announcement adds to a wave of AI infrastructure commitments in India from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, OpenAI, and AirTrunk, as the country’s data center capacity is projected to grow from 1.5 gigawatts today to over 8 gigawatts by 2030.
