Meta and Reliance will build a new AI data center in India
Meta signed its first AI data center deal in India with Reliance. The data center will be in Jamnagar, Gujarat. It will be a 168-megawatt AI-enabled facility. Meta invested $5.7 billion in Jio Platforms in 2020. Jio Platforms is part of Reliance. The new data center will use renewable energy. It will use desalinated seawater for cooling. Meta will pay for all the energy and water. The facility will be ready in two years. It can be expanded later. The data center will support Meta's global AI work. Reliance will provide end-to-end services. These services include design, construction, and power. Meta also contracted new renewable energy. It worked with CleanMax and Fourth Partner Energy. The companies did not say the deal value. They did not say the AI workloads. They did not say about future plans. Many tech companies invested in India. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google invested in India. OpenAI and Uber also invested in India. India's data center capacity grew a lot. It was 375 megawatts in 2020. It was 1.5 gigawatts in 2025. It will be over 8 gigawatts by 2030. The Indian government gave tax exemptions. These were for foreign cloud providers. The services must run from Indian data centers. Blackstone-backed AirTrunk announced plans to invest $30 billion. It will build 5 gigawatts of data center capacity by 2030. Indian companies like Adani and Tata also announced big plans.
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Meta and Reliance will build a new AI data center in India
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