Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries is preparing to develop what could become the largest data center in the world, located in Jamnagar, India, with an impressive capacity of three gigawatts. This ambitious project is designed to capitalize on the soaring demand for AI capabilities.
Once completed, the Jamnagar data center would surpass the current largest facility, Microsoft’s 600-megawatt center in Virginia, as reported by Bloomberg. The cost of the project is estimated to range between $20 billion and $30 billion.
In 2020, Ambani secured over $25 billion in funding from investors such as Meta, Google, Silver Lake, General Atlantic, KKR, Mubadala, and the Public Investment Fund (PIF), which helped fuel the expansion of Reliance’s retail and telecommunications businesses, making it the most valuable company in India.
Ambani plans to power the massive data center with renewable energy from a neighboring green energy complex, which will generate solar, wind, and hydrogen power to support the facility’s operations.
The report also mentioned that Reliance is purchasing chips from Nvidia for the data center’s needs. Nvidia and Reliance had previously announced a partnership in October to build AI infrastructure in India, marking another step in the expansion of India’s tech capabilities.
This announcement comes at a time when other global tech giants, including OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle, have committed up to $500 billion for AI infrastructure in the U.S. through their Stargate Project.
