Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance plans to build what could be the world’s largest data center with 3 gigawatts of capacity in India’s Jamnagar to capitalize on soaring demand for AI.
The facility will downsize Microsoft’s current largest data center, a 600-megawatt site in Virginia, Bloomberg reported Friday. The project could cost between $20 billion and $30 billion, the report added.
In 2020, Ambani raised more than $25 billion from a group of investors including Mehta, Google, Silver Lake, General Atlantic, KKR, Mubadala and PIF to invest in Reliance’s retail and telecom business, which currently dominates the country. Funded growth. Reliance is India’s most valuable company.
Ambani aims to power the facility primarily with renewable energy from an adjacent green energy complex that will produce solar, wind and hydrogen energy.
Nvidia sells Ambani chips for data centers, the report added. In October, Nvidia and Reliance announced a partnership to build infrastructure for AI applications in India.
The Jamnagar project comes after OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle this week pledged up to $500 billion for U.S. AI infrastructure through the Stargate project.