Details
- Meta has agreed to lease its first AI-enabled data center in India from Reliance Industries, a 168 MW facility in Jamnagar, Gujarat, with options to scale.
- The deal extends Meta and Reliance’s strategic partnership, which already spans Jio Platforms investment, connectivity, commerce, and a joint venture on open-source AI models for Indian enterprises.
- The Jamnagar data center will be powered by renewable energy, cooled with desalinated seawater, and fully funded by Meta for its energy and water usage, supporting global AI infrastructure and India’s fast-growing user base.
- This facility is part of Reliance’s plan to build one of the world’s largest data center campuses in Jamnagar, aligning with India’s push to become a major hub for AI infrastructure and digital services.
- Meta has separately contracted nearly 1 GW of new clean energy in India, including 837 MW of solar and wind with CleanMax in Rajasthan and Karnataka, and 88 MW with Fourth Partner Energy across four states, advancing its 100% renewable operations goal.
Impact
This partnership strengthens India’s position as an emerging global hub for AI compute and hyperscale infrastructure, while deepening Meta’s localization of AI capacity in a core growth market. The nearly 1 GW renewable commitment signals accelerating convergence of AI expansion and green power procurement, likely pressuring rivals to match India-based AI buildouts tied to clean energy over the next 12–24 months.
