Reliandi Mukesh Ambani is planning what could be the world’s largest data center in Jamnagar, India, with a capacity of three gigawatts to capitalize on the surging demand for AI. The facility dwarfs its largest data center today, Microsoft’s 600-Megawatt site in Virginia, Bloomberg reported Friday. The project could cost between $20 billion to $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, Mas, Mubadala and PIF to finance growth in the country. Reliance is the most valuable company in India. Ambani aims to power its facilities mainly with renewable energy from the adjacent green energy complex that will produce solar, wind and hydrogen power. Ambani bought chips from Nvidia for data centers, the report added. Nvidia and Reliance announced a partnership to build infrastructure for AI applications in India in October. The Jamnagar project comes as Openai, Softbank and Orracle this week pledged up to $500 billion for AI infrastructure in the United States through the stargate project.
