en.Wedoany.com Reported - Meta Platforms (Meta) will lease an AI-ready data center built by Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, marking Meta's first AI data center in India. Located in Jamnagar, Gujarat, western India, the facility will be powered by renewable energy and utilize seawater desalination cooling technology, with Meta covering all energy and water costs for the site.
Reliance Industries is developing one of the world's largest data center campuses in Jamnagar, a strategically significant location due to access to the vast energy required to power advanced AI infrastructure. The first phase of the facility will deliver 168 megawatts of capacity, with options for expansion. Combined with network investments such as Meta's longest global submarine cable system, Project Waterworth, Meta aims to bring industry-leading connectivity to India.
Meta also announced it has signed nearly 1 gigawatt of new clean and renewable energy in India through two clean energy supplier agreements. An agreement with Clean Max involves 837 megawatts of new solar and wind projects in Rajasthan and Karnataka, bringing the cumulative capacity announced with Clean Max to over 900 megawatts. Another agreement with Fourth Partner Energy involves 88 megawatts of new solar and wind projects in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh.
Meta has built a strong partnership with Reliance Industries over the years, having invested $5.7 billion in Jio Platforms in 2020. According to Data Centre Dynamics, driven by digitalization, cloud adoption, and increased AI workloads, the Indian data center market is expected to nearly double to $13.11 billion by 2034. The website noted that this deal comes amid a surge in hyperscale data center construction in India, with US cloud giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google leading the expansion.
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