Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance plans to build the world’s largest data center with a capacity of 3 gigawatts in Jamnagar, India, to capitalize on surging demand for AI.
The facility will dwarf Microsoft’s 600-megawatt data center in Virginia, the company’s current largest data center, Bloomberg reported Friday. The project could cost between $20 billion and $30 billion, the report added.
Ambani raised more than $25 billion in 2020 from a group of investors including Meta, Google, Silver Lake, General Atlantic, KKR, Mubadala and PIF to fund the growth of Reliance’s retail and telecom ventures, which now dominate the country. I did it. Reliance is India’s most valuable company.
Ambani aims to power the facility primarily using renewable energy from an adjacent green energy complex that produces solar, wind and hydrogen power.
Ambani is buying chips for data centers from Nvidia, the report added. Nvidia and Reliance announced a partnership in October to build infrastructure for AI applications in India.
The Jamnagar project was launched this week when OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle pledged up to $500 billion to AI infrastructure in the U.S. through the Stargate project.
