Amid the fierce competition among global tech giants for computing power, Meta has taken a key step in establishing AI infrastructure in India by announcing a deep strategic partnership with Reliance Industries, a leading Indian business conglomerate.
The two parties plan to jointly build an AI data center with a capacity of 168 megawatts in Jamnagar, Gujarat. This facility will not only be an essential part of Meta's global AI network, supporting its AI model training and deployment worldwide, but also feature renewable energy power supply and seawater desalination cooling systems to create a green and sustainable computing center. According to the agreement, Reliance Industries will take full responsibility for design, construction, connection, and subsequent operations, demonstrating its ambition to become a one-stop service provider for AI infrastructure for global technology companies.
This collaboration is not the first time the two have worked together. Previously, Meta made a multi-billion-dollar strategic investment in Reliance's Jio platform, and last year, the two companies launched a joint venture of $100 million aimed at providing enterprise-level AI solutions for the Indian and overseas markets. The establishment of this data center marks that their cooperation has officially moved from digital services and application layers into the core computing infrastructure that supports AI development.
With the explosive growth of AI application demand, India is rapidly rising as a new hub for global AI computing power investment. In addition to Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, OpenAI, and Uber have recently announced increased investments in cloud infrastructure in India. The local data center capacity has surged from about 375 megawatts in 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts in 2025, and industry experts expect this number to more than double by the end of this century, surpassing 8 gigawatts.
To attract global capital, the Indian government has introduced multiple incentive policies, including tax benefits for foreign cloud service providers operating workloads within India until 2047. At the same time, infrastructure investors such as AirTrunk, backed by Blackstone, and local Indian groups such as Adani and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), are also actively investing to support the growing AI computing load.
To ensure energy security for the Jamnagar facility, Meta has also signed renewable energy purchase agreements totaling nearly 1 gigawatt with CleanMax and Fourth Partner Energy. Although the specific financial details of this collaboration and the types of AI models running in the data center were not disclosed, this move has undoubtedly integrated India more closely into Meta's global AI computing network and further solidified the computing foundation for India's digital economy transformation.
